Cyrille Fijnaut is a former Dutch professor of international and comparative criminal law at the Law School of Tilburg University. In the past he was also professor of criminology and criminal law at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and the KU Leuven in Belgium. He is a member of the Global Law School Faculty of the New York University School of Law. His main research interests are related to organised crime and terrorism, international police and judicial cooperation, comparative criminal procedure and police law, the history of European criminology and of policing in Europe, and police and judicial cooperation in the Benelux.
In these fields he has written and edited some 80 books and published hundreds of articles in academic and professional journals and edited books. In addition, he has worked several times as an expert for a number of governmental and parliamentary committees of inquiry in Belgium and the Netherlands with regard to organised and professional crime problems and in relation to security issues. He was also the rapporteur of the committee that investigated the safety and security problems of Pim Fortuin, the Dutch politician who was killed in May 2002.
In these fields he has written and edited some 80 books and published hundreds of articles in academic and professional journals and edited books. In addition, he has worked several times as an expert for a number of governmental and parliamentary committees of inquiry in Belgium and the Netherlands with regard to organised and professional crime problems and in relation to security issues. He was also the rapporteur of the committee that investigated the safety and security problems of Pim Fortuin, the Dutch politician who was killed in May 2002.