Randall LesafferRandall Christoph Herman Lesaffer (born 25 April 1968) is a Belgian historian of international law. He has been professor of legal history at Tilburg University since 1999, where he also served as dean of Tilburg Law School from 2008 to 2012. His wor focuses on the Early Modern Age (16-18th centuries). Lesaffer was born in 1968 in Bruges, the town where he continues to live. He studied law as well as history at the universities of Ghent and Leuven. In 1998, he obtained his PhD in law from the University of Leuven. He became professor of legal history at Tilburg University in 1999 and is also part-time professor of International and European history at the University of Leuven. Lesaffer's work focuses on the history of public international law, a field which has gone through a significant growth as an academic discipline since the 1990s. He mainly published on international law in the European Early-Modern Age. He is the editor of the Oxford Historical Treaties, a digitisation of historical treaties. general editor of the book series Studies in the History of International Law (Brill), editor of the Global Law Series (Cambridge UP), editor of the Journal of the History of International Law, president of the Grotiana foundation (Stichting Grotiana). Lesaffer was dean of Tilburg Law School from 2008 to 2012. During his term the school launched an English-taught Bachelor in Law on 'Global Law' and made globalisation the core of its strategy. Lesaffer co-founded the Law Schools Global League in 2012 and was one of its two founding presidents. The League is an association of about 25 law schools from all over the world to work around globalisation. He is also visiting professor at the Católica Global Law School in Lisbon. He has been actively involved in local politics in Bruges since the 1990s. He was chairman of the VLD (liberal party) in Bruges from 1993 to 2001 and served as a member of the city-council for CD&V in 2011-2012. He was a member and vice-president of the Port Authority of the harbour of Bruges-Zeebruges from 1999 till 2014. Read More Read Less