Tom Ruys is a Professor of International Law at Universiteit Gent, Belgium where he heads the Ghent Rolin-Jaequemyns International Law Institute. He holds a doctoral degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and is a member of the Brussels Bar. He was a visiting researcher at Yale Law School in 2008 and a visiting fellow at the Cambridge Lauterpacht Centre in 2016. Ruys is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law and the Military Law and Law of War Review. He was previously awarded the Francis Lieber Prize (2015 article prize and 2011 book prize) as well as the Francis Deák Prize (2015).