Filip reyntjens biography examples

Belgian political scientist, university teacher and jurist

Filip Reyntjens (born 1952)^[1] is professor emeritus at University of Antwerp. His academic training is in constitutional law, but he later pivoted towards the study of politics especially of the Great Lakes region of Africa.^[2]

Career

In 1975, while working as a research assistant at the University of Antwerp, Reyntjens was asked to be involved in a project that involved running a law school at the National University of Rwanda, in Butare.^[3] This began a long affiliation with Rwanda.

His PhD Thesis: 'Power and Law in Rwanda.

Rwanda, ten years on: From genocide to dictatorship

Public Law and Political Evolution, 1916-1973' (Original French: Pouvoir et droit au Rwanda. Droit public et évolution politique, 1916-1973), was completed in 1983, and later published as a book in 1985.^[4] After this, his research widened from Rwanda to the Great Lakes Region as a whole - publishing work on Burundi and on the Democrat REYNTJENS, Filip L.

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