Koen de FeyterKoen De Feyter is professor of international law at the law faculty of the University of Antwerp. He is the author of World development law (Antwerp, Intersentia, 2001) and Human rights. Social justice in the age of the market (London, Zed Books,2005). He previously held positions at the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice), at the Human Rights Centre of the University of Maastricht and at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (Antwerp).

Koen de Feyter is a lawyer who has taught and researched in academic settings on human rights and development issues for twenty years. He has been engaged in field work on behalf of both non-governmental and governmental actors in such diverse areas as Central Africa, the Philippines, Brazil and Northern Ireland. He is currently Senior Lecturer in International Law at the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Antwerp and the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Maastricht. Read More Read Less