Founding Member of the ESIL and currently serves as its Secretary General (since May 2006) and member of the Executive Board (since May 2004). He is Associate Professor of Law at the American University in Cairo and Director of the Ibrahim Shihata Memorial LLM Program in International and Comparative Law. Before Cairo, Thomas taught international law at Leiden University, where he still holds the position of General Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law. He has also served as Senior Fellow of the European Law Research Center of Harvard Law School and Research Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague. His latest publications include "The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse" (2010).
Founding Member of the ESIL and currently serves as its Secretary General (since May 2006) and member of the Executive Board (since May 2004). He is Associate Professor of Law at the American University in Cairo and Director of the Ibrahim Shihata Memorial LLM Program in International and Comparative Law. Before Cairo, Thomas taught international law at Leiden University, where he still holds the position of General Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law. He has also served as Senior Fellow of the European Law Research Center of Harvard Law School and Research Fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague. His