Frederik Dhondt

Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt is assistant professor of legal history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (since October 2015), where he leads the Research Group Contextual Research in Law (CORE), and is affiliated to GRILI as voluntary research associate. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders at Ghent University (2014-2017) and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Antwerp (October 2016-2020). Frederik Dhondt’s research focuses on practical legal argumentation in 18th and 19th century European international relations and on comparative constitutional history. He teaches Belgian Political History, Historical and Comparative Introduction to Public Law and History of International Law at the VUB.