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Frederik Dhondt
Frederik Dhondt (1984) is assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel since 1 October 2015 and the director of the Research Group CORE. He teaches the courses Political History of Belgium (6 ECTS, First Year Bachelor of Laws, First Year Bachelor of Science in Criminology), Historical and Comparative Introduction to Public Law (6 ECTS, First Year Bachelor of Laws) and Legal History (3 ECTS, Master of Laws, together with R. Cahen).
Frederik obtained the degrees of Master of Laws (Ghent, 2002-2007, Magna Cum Laude, Specialty Public law and International Law), Master of Arts in History (Ghent, 2004-2008, Erasmus Paris IV-Sorbonne, Summa Cum Laude) and Research Master in International Relations (Sciences Po Paris, Ecole doctorale, 2008-2009, Magna Cum Laude). His Master thesis on the War of the Spanish Succession (
Nec Pluribus Impar? De campagnes en onderhandelingen van Lodewijk XIV in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden, 1707-1708, under the direction of René Vermeir) was awarded the André Schaepdrijver Prize (OSGG) for best Master Thesis in History at Ghent University, and the Thesis Prize of the
Werkgroep 18de Eeuw (Belgian-Dutch Society for Eighteenth Century Studies). The commercial version was published as
Op zoek naar glorie in Vlaanderen. De Zonnekoning en de Spaanse Successie by UGA (series
Standen en Landen/Anciens Pays et Assemblées d’Etats, vol. 108). The book won the 2012 Prize for Historical Research of the Province of East-Flanders (see
publications). In, 2007, Frederik obtained the Ghent Court of Appeal Prize for best master papers in law (papers in
open access on e-thesis). In 2016, he was awarded the
Van Caenegem Prize for best article published by a young scholar in
Comparative Legal History.
After completing his dissertation, Frederik was appointed as Faculty Postdoctoral Assistant at the Ghent Law Faculty and lecturer in charge for the course
European and Belgian Private Legal History (Second Year Bachelor of Laws, 2013-2014). From October 2014 to September 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), on a project entitled
Foreign Legal Perceptions of the Belgian Buffer State’s Neutrality, 1830-1914. From November 2014 to April 2015, he was a visiting fellow in Geneva (
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies).
In October 2015, Frederik joined the VUB as Assistant Professor. In October 2016, he obtained a complementary position as Visiting Lecturer at the University of Antwerp’s law faculty, where he currently teaches Political and Institutional History of Belgium and the Low Countries (First year Bachelor of Laws, 6 ECTS, together with Vice-Chancellor Herman Van Goethem) and Legal History (Master of Laws, 3 ECTS).
Frederik’s research focuses on the history of international law, public law and politics in the 18th and 19th centuries. He publishes in English, French, Dutch and (occasionally) Spanish and German.