Editors and Scientific Committee
Heiner Bielefeldt: Professor of human rights and human rights politics at University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. From 2003 until 2009 he was Director of the German Institute for Human Rights, i.e. Germany’s accredited National Human Rights Institute. Between 2010 and 2016 he served as UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. Recent publications include Auslaufmodell Menschenwürde? (Freiburg, 2009) and Freedom of Religion or Belief (Bonn, 2014).
Janet Blake: Associate Professor of Law at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran), where she is a member of the UNESCO Chair for Human Rights and the Centre for Excellence in Education for Sustainable Development. She is also a member of the Cultural Heritage Law Committee of the International Law Association and has acted as an International Consultant to UNESCO since 1999, mostly in the field of intangible cultural heritage. Her research monograph on International Cultural Heritage Law was published by Oxford University Press in June 2015.
Kalliopi Chainoglou: Lecturer in International and European Institutions at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki (Greece) and Research Fellow at the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, University of East London. She completed her PhD in International Law at King’s College London and is an Associate Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. Her main fields of research are human rights law, cultural rights and policies, and international peace and security. She is an expert of the Council of Europe/ERICarts Compendium of Cultural Policies & Trends in Europe and has published extensively on human rights and international law; her most recent publication: Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights (Routledge, 2017).
Yvonne Donders: Professor of International Law and Cultural Diversity and Head of the Department of International and European Law at the University of Amsterdam; PhD at Maastricht University on cultural human rights and the right to cultural identity. Her research interests include public international law, international human rights law, in particular economic, social and cultural rights, and human rights and cultural diversity. She teaches courses on public international law and human rights law and gives lectures on cultural rights and cultural diversity. She has previously worked as a Programme Specialist at UNESCO’s Human Rights Department. She is currently member of the Dutch National Commission for UNESCO; Member of the Human Rights Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs; Member of the Advisory Council to the Netherlands National Institute for Human Rights; Member of Editorial Board of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights; and Member of the European Expert Network on Culture.
Paul De Hert: Human rights and law & technology scholar working in the area of constitutionalism, criminal law and surveillance law. He is interested both in legal practice and more fundamental reflections about law. At the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), he holds the chair of European Criminal Law. In the past he has taught Historical Constitutionalism, Human Rights, Legal Theory and Constitutional Criminal Law. He is Director of the Research Group on Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism (FRC), Director of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (Metajuridics) and a co-director of the Research Group Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS). He is an associated-professor at Tilburg University where he teaches Privacy and Data Protection at Master level at the Tilburg Institute of Law, Technology, and Society (TILT).
Andrzej Jakubowski: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw). He has published primarily in the area of international cultural heritage law, including State Succession in Cultural Property (OUP, 2015). He currently chairs an international collaborative research project entitled ‘HEURIGHT – The Right to Cultural Heritage – Its Protection and Enforcement through Cooperation in the European Union’ within the programme HERITAGE PLUS, co-financed by the European Union (Horizon 2020).
Annamari Laaksonen: Research Manager at the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) in charge of the knowledge and analysis programme of the Federation. Prior to IFACCA, she worked for more than a decade at Interarts Foundation in the field of culture, development, human rights and international cooperation. Her publications include Making culture accessible: Access, participation and cultural provision in the context of cultural rights in Europe (Council of Europe, 2010).
Federico Lenzerini: Professor of International Law, University of Siena (Italy). He is also Professor at the LL.M. Program in Intercultural Human Rights at the St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, USA, Consultant to UNESCO (Paris), and Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on ‘Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’. His main fields of research are human rights law, rights of indigenous peoples, asylum and refugee law, law of cultural heritage.
Anna Śledzińska-Simon: Assistant Professor in the Chair of Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University in Wroclaw.She received her S.J.D. and LL.M. degree in comparative constitutional law from the Central European University (Budapest) and has worked as a national legal expert for the Agency of Fundamental Rights, the Polish Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights and the Israel Democracy Institute. She specialises in comparative constitutional law, human rights and anti-discrimination law. She is also a regular speaker at the Academy of European Law in Trier. Her current research concerns the application of the principle of proportionality in courts and the role of women in constitution-making.
Andreas Joh. Wiesand: Executive Director, European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research (ERICarts) and Publisher, ARCult Media (Cologne). Professor emeritus, State Academy for Music and Theatre, Hamburg and Lecturer at different European universities. He wrote his PhD on the mobility of journalists. He is an expert for the EU; Council of Europe; UNESCO; etc. and (co-)author or main editor of ca. 50 books on the status of artists; political, economic and legal questions in the arts and media; European cooperation; gender equality; etc. Numerous honorary positions, e.g. former SG, German Arts Council (Dt. Kulturrat), former Chair Board of Governors, VG Bild-Kunst (copyright licensing society) and current SG, European Association of Cultural Researchers (ECURES).
Authors of Keyword Entries
Daniela Alaattinoğlu: PhD researcher in law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Her research and publications focus on gender (violence) and law, intersectionality and human rights. She studied at the University of Helsinki and Istanbul Bilgi University and worked at the Police College of Finland, academia, the Finnish State and an Istanbul-based human rights NGO.
Jessica Almqvist: Senior Researcher and Lecturer in public international law and international relations at the Autónoma University of Madrid. Ph.D. in law, EUI. She has published books, articles and policy-papers in the field of international human rights, with a focus on the role of courts in protecting these rights in times of cultural diversity, in the global fight against terrorism, and in transitions to democracy.
Katya Andrusz: Journalistic Editor, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), author / editor of articles on migrant integration, racism and xenophobia, violence against women and other key human rights topics. A correspondent for many years, writing for Bloomberg News, the Economist, The Guardian, Reuters and others. Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Jordi Baltà Portolés: Consultant and trainer in cultural policy and international relations. An expert of the Agenda 21 for culture (UCLG) and a member of the Group of Experts of the UNESCO Convention on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, he teaches at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), University of Girona (UdG) and Ramon Llull University (URL).
Petra Bárd: Senior researcher at the National Institute of Criminology, Hungary and Head of the Division of Criminal Law Sciences. She is visiting Professor at the Central European University’s (CEU) Legal Studies Department, she teaches inter alia EU constitutional law, EU criminal law and human rights in the EU. She is also Associate Professor at ELTE School of Law and Visiting Lecturer at other universities across Europe from Belgrade to Frankfurt and participates at several international research projects. She has worked for the EU Network of Experts of Fundamental Rights and is a member of different scientific associations or civil society organisations. Her current research focuses on extremist speech and hate crimes.
Beatriz Barreiro: Lecturer of Public International Law at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid). She previously worked as a researcher in the Department of Law & Anthropology of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle) and at the Institute of Public International and European Law, University of Gottingen. She has delivered papers at International Conferences, including “Living with World Heritage in Africa” (2012, South Africa) and “UNESCO and the Cold War” (2010, University of Heidelberg). She holds a PhD in Human Rights (Carlos III University of Madrid) and a Master in European Law (Free University of Brussels).
Nedzad Basic: Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University in Bihac, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Once PhD and former Fulbright scholar, he now leads the Human Rights Conflict Prevention Centre at this university. His present lectures, research and publications focus, inter alia, on the political and legal system of the EU and global structural changes, Islamic identity, human rights conflicts and security issues.
Gerhart Rudolf Baum: Liberal politician and human rights lawyer in Cologne, Germany; former Federal Minister of the Interior (in charge of culture). He has worked for the UN (e.g. as Human Rights Commissioner for Sudan, 2001–03). Numerous honorary positions in culture-related organisations and initiatives (e.g. since 2005 Chair of the arts advocacy council Kulturrat NRW).
Uladzislau Belavusau: Assistant Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam. He conducts research in the fields of EU law, human rights, comparative constitutional law, law and society, extensively publishing, in particular, on freedom of speech and anti-discrimination law.
Mark Bell: Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin. He conducts research in the areas of Equality Law and Employment Law. He works regularly with European NGOs dealing with equality issues, as well as with the European Commission and the International Labour Organisation.
Vincent Bonnet: Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA) since 2010. He combines his passion for libraries with his interest in European affairs, copyright and access to information. Before the EBLIDA he worked in France, both as a trainer for a private company that serves libraries and as a civil servant in public libraries.
Johanne Bouchard: Anthropologist, since 2007 Scientific Collaborator at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics and Human Rights, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), and at the Observatory of Diversity and Cultural Rights. She contributed to numerous projects of applied and policy research mainly on cultural rights. In January 2015, she joined the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, supporting the mandate of Special Procedure in the field of cultural rights.
Eva Brems: Professor of Human Rights Law at Ghent University, where she founded the Human Rights Centre in 2002. Her research interests cover most areas of European and international human rights law, with emphasis on the protection of the rights of nondominant groups and individuals. She has a keen interest in multi- and interdisciplinary research and served on the board of several Belgian human rights NGOs, including as the Chair of Amnesty International (Flemish section).
Wojciech Brzozowski: Assistant professor at the Department of Law on Religious Denominations, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Poland. Legislation expert at the Chancellery of the Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament). Doctor of Law (2009). Author of publications in the field of constitutional law.
Ulrich Bunjes: Sociologistwhoworked between 2014–2016 as the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe for Roma Issues. For the Council of Europe, he previously coordinated the preparation of the White Paper on Intercultural Dialogue and held various positions in the fields of youth and education. He also has extensive NGO experience.
Dominika Bychawska-Siniarska: Lawyer in Warsaw and PhD candidate at the Polish Academy of Sciences. As a Graduate of the College of Europe, she has worked at the European Court of Human Rights and at the European Integration Office of the Polish Government. She coordinated a number of projects at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, where she is a member of the Board since 2016. She received the award of Polish Journalistic Association “Article 54” for her work on freedom of expression in Poland.
Suzanne Capiau: Lawyer in Brussels, Lecturer at the Free University of Brussels (Audiovisual and performing arts law) and Assistant Lecturer at the University of Lorraine in Metz (Digital communication law). Author of reference works on the social, fiscal and intellectual status of artists, she assisted in the development of an artists’ statute in Belgium, certain aspects of which have already been adopted. She regularly advises and defends artists, activity centres and professional organisations, as well as producers and distributors in the creative and cultural sectors.
Gemma Carbó: Director of the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policies and Cooperation at the University of Girona. PhD in Education, she gained an Advanced Studies Diploma in Culture and Law, a Master in Cultural Management and a Bachelor of Arts (History). She is also lecturer at the University of Girona and coordinator of the Virtual Master in Cultural Management (UOC-UdG-UIB) and the postgraduate program: Education and culture, management programs and projects. Her professional development and current research explores the relationship between cultural policy and education; education and cultural diversity; and education and creativity.
Maria Adele Carrai: Max Weber Post-Doctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence. She conducts research in the areas of Chinese legal history and international law, focusing on the current Chinese attitudes toward international law and on future developments of the global legal order.
María Soledad Cisternas Reyes: Legal expert, political scientist and consultant, and Director of the Legal Programme on Disability, Faculty of Law, Diego Portales University (Santiago de Chile). In addition, she is Chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and works for UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Chile.
Vesna Čopič: Legal expert, Lecturer at the University of Ljubljana and independent consultant, following a career in the Slovenian Ministry of Education. Her research and expertise focuses on legal issues in culture and European cooperation; the status of artists; human and cultural rights; cultural administration and management; cultural policies in South East Europe; desétatisation and privatisation issues. She currently acts as President, European Association of Cultural Researchers (ECURES).
Milena Dragićević Šešić: Professor of Cultural Policy & Art Management, and a UNESCO expert. She is former President of University of Arts, Belgrade. She has published 100 essays, 16 books (Culture: management, animation, marketing; Neo-folk culture; Art and alternative; Horizons of reading, Art management in turbulent times, Intercultural mediation in the Balkans. Translated in 17 languages.)
Irene Drakou: Associate Expert to the UNESCO 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its (1954 and 1999) Protocols. She has an MA in International Politics and Human Rights, International LL.M./LPC.
Khalid Ermilate: Associate Programme Specialist at UNESCO. He holds an LL.M. in Public International Law from Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Derek Fincham: Associate professor of law at South Texas College of Law in Houston. He writes about the intersection of law and cultural heritage and serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural Property.
Hans Fischer-Kerrane: Masters student at the University of Amsterdam wherehe studies European and International Law. His primary area of interest is international human rights law. He has previous experience working for an NGO in Ireland.
Roberto Frifrini: Legal researcher at the Human Rights Agenda Association Insan Hakları Gűndemi Derneği, Ankara, Turkey, with a focus on minority rights, migrants, civil and constitutional rights. He is a member of: Pro-Bono service within the Rights in Exile Progamme – International Refugees Rights Initiative; GALE – European Strategy Group; Institut des Hautes Études sur la Justice, Paris, France. He is also an Op-ed contributor at Today’s Zaman (up to March 2016), and L’Humanité.
Manilo Frigo: Full professor of International and European Law and of International Contracts and Arbitration Law at the Milan State University (Università degli Studi di Milano), Department of International, Juridical, Political and Historical Studies. He is a member of both the Steering Committee of the PhD in International Economic Law of the Bocconi University, Milan, and the Committee on Cultural Heritage Law of the ILA (International Law Association). He has been a member of the Milan Bar since 1980.
Montserrat Gas-Aixendri: Associate Professor of Law at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), where she teaches Law and Religion. She holds a PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Author of more than forty articles and three books, and editor of three books. Her research interests are religious freedom, migrations, cultural rights and the governance of religious diversity in European societies.
Bożena Gierat-Bieroń: Lecturer at the Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University, and a visiting scholar at Trinity College (Dublin), Glasgow University (UK), Sassari University (Italy), Osaka University (Japan) and the Summer School of Polish Culture in Rome, as well as former co-ordinator of Euroculture Programme. She has a Ph.D in Humanities (Polish Literature and Drama Studies). Her main academic interests are: European models of cultural policy; EU cultural policy; history of European culture; theory of arts. She authored 3 books and 28 articles and has been the editor or co-editor of six other books. She worked at the National Centre of Culture (Warsaw) as well as the Collegium Civitas in Warsaw and participated in various international projects and conferences.
Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias: Policy and legal expert in the fields of anti-discrimination law, freedom of speech vs. hate speech, “memory laws” and transitional justice. She holds a PhD from the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Poznan Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Dorota Anna Gozdecka: Senior Lecturer at College of Law, Australia National University. She holds a PhD and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA, UK) as well as Adjunct Professor (Docent) at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include critical legal theory; law and humanities; international and European human rights; and feminist legal theory.
Ulrike Guerin: Responsible for the Underwater Cultural Heritage Programme and the 2001 Convention at UNESCO in Paris. As such she organises the Meetings of States Parties, intergovernmental meetings and UNESCO operational projects, from trainings and exhibitions to emergency assistance missions. She is a lawyer by training.
Véronique Guèvremont: Professor at Université Laval, Québec (Canada), where she teaches international law with a focus on culture, cultural diversity and sustainable development, and international economic law. She was actively involved in the negotiation of the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. She is also the co-founder of the International Network of Lawyers for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (RIJDEC).
Hans Morten Haugen: Professor at VID Specialized University in Oslo. His publications include The Right to Food and the TRIPS Agreement (M. Nijhoff 2007), Technology and Human Rights: Friends or Foes? (Republic of Letters, 2012), and over 10 articles and over 5 book chapters on IP issues; the last two appearing in Elsevier’s online Food Science Reference Module.
Jan Hladík: Chief, Cultural Heritage Protection Treaties Section, UNESCO. He is responsible for the implementation of programmes related to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and its two (1954 and 1999) Protocols and the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. He holds an MA International Law, and iuris doctor (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Erica Howard: Associate Professor of Law, Middlesex University, London. She holds a PhD in European discrimination law. She has conducted extensive research in the area of freedom of religion and religious discrimination, publishing a book – Law and the Wearing of Religious Symbols: European Bans on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Education (London and New York: Routledge) – and a number of articles on these subjects.
Yudhishthir Raj Isar: Professor of Cultural Policy Studies at The American University of Paris; Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He is co-editor of the Cultures and Globalization Series (SAGE). His work straddles different worlds of cultural theory and practice. Previously, at UNESCO, he was notably Executive Secretary of the World Commission on Culture and Development.
Lina Jasmontaite: Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E, IAPP). She joined the Centre for IT & IP Law, a research center at the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), in June 2014. Her research interests include human rights, regulation of new technologies, and the protection of personal data.
Susanne Keuchel: Director of the Akademie der Kulturellen Bildung, Remscheid (Academy for Arts Education, Remscheid) and Chairperson of the Institut für Bildung und Kultur (IBK). Honorary Professor at the Institut für Kulturpolitik, University of Hildesheim and Lecturer, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Hamburg. She is also a graduated musicologist.
Tomasz Tadeusz Koncewicz: Professor of law and the Director of the Department of the European and Comparative Law at the University of Gdansk. In 2015–2016 he was Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Berkeley Law School, University of California; where he taught comparative constitutional law. He is an attorney and Member of the Polish Bar, specialising in the strategic litigation before European supranational courts. In the past he served as the Referendaire at the Court of the European Union in Luxembourg and acted as a legal adviser at the Office of the Polish Constitutional Court.
Joanna Kulesza: Professor of international law and Internet governance at the University of Lodz, Poland and an expert on human rights online for the Council of Europe. She has also been an expert for the Sino-European Cybersecurity Dialogue (SECD) and serves as Membership Committee Chair for the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet).
Lorenz Langer: Lecturer at the Law Faculty of the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and Senior Researcher at the University’s Centre for Democracy Studies as well as Managing Editor of the Swiss Review of International & European Law. His research focuses on human rights and on democratic participation. Currently, he is writing a monograph on judicial elections.
Alexander Lautensach: Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is also deputy director of the Human Security Institute, and associate editor of the Journal of Human Security. His research interests span environmental science, bioethics, and education.
Sabina Lautensach: Lecturer in anthropology, human security and development studies. She is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Security. As director of the Human Security Institute she coordinates collaborations worldwide. In 2013 she co-edited the first university graduate level textbook in human security, Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (Caesarpress).
Lucas Lixinski: Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Law, UNSW Australia. He holds a PhD in Law from the European University Institute, and an LL.M in Human Rights from Central European University. He is the author of Intangible Cultural Heritage in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2013) and many other publications.
Tiyanjana Maluwa: H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law at Pennsylvania State University School of Law. His most recent book is Law, Politics and Rights: Essays in Memory of Kader Asmal (Brill, 2013). He is co-editing a book titled: The Pursuit of a Brave New World in International Law.
Tarlach McGonagle: Senior researcher/ lecturer at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. He holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. He regularly writes expert studies on freedom of expression, media law and policy, and journalism for various branches of the Council of Europe and the OSCE. He has been a member of the Council of Europe’s Committees of Experts on protection of journalism and safety of journalists (2014–2015) and media pluralism and transparency of media ownership (2016– )
Christine M. Merkel: Historian, Psychologist in Cologne, Germany. One of 45 UNESCO experts to advise governments on cultural and media policies aligned with the 2005 UNESCO-Convention on the Diversity of cultural expressions. Regional Focus North Africa (CONNEXXIONS program). She participated in expert missions for IDEA International, European Union, Council of Europe, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Foundation and UNESCO to over 20 countries.
Patrice Meyer-Bisch: Philosopher, coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Ethics and Human Rights and of the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights and Democracy, University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He teaches in political ethics on human rights, democratic governance and economic ethics and coordinated the work on cultural rights of the “Groupe de Fribourg”. In 2004, he created the Observatory of Diversity and Cultural Rights.
Aleksandra Mężykowska: Co-Agent of the Government of Poland since 2004 in cases and proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights. She holds a Ph.D. and has lectured, from 2007 to 2013, in public international law and human rights at Łazarski University in Warsaw. Since 2013 she is co-author of the Blog Review of the Public International Law (http://przegladpm.blogspot.com). She specialises in international law, particularly international mechanisms of protection of human rights, discrimination and corporate social responsibility.
Annemarie Middelburg: Human rights law consultant with an LL.M degree in Public International Law and Human Rights. She completed her PhD at the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT) at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in March 2016. Her PhD research focuses on compliance with the human rights framework in relation to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Senegal.
Siobhan Montgomery: Senior Project Advisor on Culture and Democracy, Council of Europe. Herwork on human rights includes: overseeing the CoE project on strengthening awareness-raising of the human rights dimension of local and regional level; panellist at the Wroclaw Public Forum on the Cultural Dimension of Human Rights, 2015. She holds an LLB and LLM (specialisation Human Rights, University of London)
Mathias Möschel: Associate Professor at Central European University. His research, teaching and publications fall broadly in the field of comparative (constitutional) law, international human rights law and non-discrimination law, mainly from a critical race theory and gender perspective.
Geanina Munteanu: Human rights lawyer and former diplomat, with international academic background and relevant professional experience both in the public sector (having served as a lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights, the Council of Europe and the European Commission) and in the NGO sector (having participated in several projects for the implementation of human rights across Europe). She holds an LL.B.(Romania); M.A.(Romania); LL.M.(Belgium).
Stefan Oeter: Professor for German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law, University of Hamburg Law School, Germany (since 1999). He holds a Dr. jur and is a member (and Vice-Chairperson) of the Independent Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (Council of Europe) as well as a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and of the Academy of Science in Hamburg.
Aleksandra Oszmiańska-Pagett: Lecturer at Samuel B. Linde College of Modern Languages, Poznań. She is a Member of the Committee of Experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) at the Council of Europe on behalf of Poland.
Umit Ozturk: Linguist and journalist from Turkey who lives in the UK since 1992. He has worked as a human rights reporter, editor, broadcaster, media analyst and trainer with expertise on freedom of press, social media and cyber rights and liberties. He is the founder and current coordinator of the strategic research charity Euro-Mediterranean Resources Network.
Rafael Palomino: Professor of Law at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Researcher at the Human Rights Institute of that university. He is an associate member of the Royal Academy of Law (Spain). He is also Vice-Director of Anuario de Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado [Church–State Law Spanish Yearbook] and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Revista General de Derecho Canónico y Derecho Eclesiástico del Estado [Church–State & Canon Law Review].
András L. Pap: Professor of Constitutional Law and a SASRO-Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava; Research Chair and Head of Department for the Study of Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute Centre for Social Sciences Institute for Legal Studies; as well as Adjunct Professor at Central European University’s Nationalism Studies Programme and Professor at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. His research interests include constitutional law, human rights, minority rights and law enforcement issues.
Vagelis Papakonstantinou: Co-founder of MPlegal Law Firm in Athens, Greece, as well as a researcher at the Research Group on Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Sejal Parmar: Assistant Professor at the Department of Legal Studies and a core faculty member of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University, Budapest. Her main field of expertise and research is international and European human rights law, particularly on freedom of expression. She previously served as Senior Legal Officer at ARTICLE 19.
Robert Peters: Legal Officer for the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Germany. Previously, he worked in the Office of Legal Affairs at UNESCO. He obtained his Ph.D. in the field of International Cultural Heritage Law with a specific focus on restitution disputes.
Adam Ploszka: PhD student at the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, and a lawyer for the Polish NGO Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.
Dorota Pudzianowska: Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, Warsaw University. She specialises in public law with particular interest in human rights, migration law, nationality law and anti-discrimination law. She also works as a lawyer at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw where she is responsible for strategic litigation of discrimination cases. She has been an alternate member of the Board of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
Jacek Purchla: Art historian, economist. Chair of Economic and Social History and the UNESCO Chair of Cultural Heritage and Urban Studies at the Krakow University of Economics and head of the Centre of European Heritage, Institute of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University. His areas of research are urban development, social history, and art history of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the theory and protection of cultural heritage. His scientific output includes numerous books and over 300 articles published in many languages. Since 1991 he is the organiser and director of the International Cultural Centre in Krakow.
Arturo Rey da Silva: Works since 2011 within UNESCO’s Secretariat of the 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, in Paris (France). In 2007 he specialised in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology at Southampton University (England), then worked at the Spanish National Underwater Archaeology Museum ARQUA (2009–2010) and has taken part in different international research projects, publishing numerous specialised articles.
Céline Romainville: Professor at Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium), where she teaches constitutional law. Her research deals with issues of national and comparative constitutional law, with a special focus on cultural policies. Recent book publications include European law and cultural policies (2015) and Le droit à la culture, une réalité juridique (2014).
Jörg Michael Schindler: Administration manager and lawyer in the Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the Bavarian Capital City of Munich. He is also lecturer for public law at Dresden International University. He holds a Dr. iur and an M.A.
Britta Schneider: Sociolinguist, working as a Primary Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. Her bi-national PhD Dissertation dealt with Language and Transnationalism (2012). Her research interests focus on how language is affected by ethnic diversity and transnational discourse. In addition, she has worked on language policies and language rights in educational contexts and on language ideologies in transnational communities of practice constituted by music and dance.
Tullio Scovazzi: Professor of international law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. He occasionally participates, as a legal expert, in negotiations and meetings relating to law of the sea, human rights, and cultural properties.
Izabela Skomerska-Muchowska: Assistant Professor at the Chair of European Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law & Administration, University of Łódź (Poland). She teaches and writes primarily in the area of the law and policy of the European Union. Her main research interests focus on EU citizenship and EU system of judicial protection.
Krzysztof Śmiszek: President of the Polish Society of Antidiscrimination Law. From 2008 to 2010 he workedas a Policy Officer and Policy Coordinator for EQUINET-European Network of Equality Bodies. Expert in sexual orientation and gender discrimination. Since 2011 he has been working at the University of Warsaw,Human Rights Centre, Faculty of Law and Administration.
Kristina Stoeckl: Assistant professor of sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and principle investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project (2015-676804) Postsecular Conflicts. She works on public religions and transnational religious traditionalism with a special focus on Russian Orthodox Christianity.
Peter Stone OBE: UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, Newcastle University. A specialist in protecting cultural property during armed conflict, Professor Stone has advised the UK government regarding the identification and protection of the cultural heritage in Iraq. He is also Chair of the UK Committee for the Blue Shield; the cultural heritage equivalent of the Red Cross.
Konstantinos Tararas: Programme Specialist, Sector for Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. He is a legal Expert with a focus on human rights and democracy. Publications include: Human Rights: Questions and Answers, 2013 (with Leah Levin).
Jeroen Temperman: Associate Professor of public international law at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also the editor-in-chief of Religion & Human Rights. His most recent book is entitled Religious Hatred and International Law and is published by Cambridge University Press. In 2014 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, facilitating a visiting professorship at American University Washington College of Law.
Elka Tschernokoshewa: Associate Professor, cultural anthropologist and philosopher. She holds a PhD and is a former head of the Department of cultural studies at the Sorbian Institute Bautzen/Cottbus. She is an expert for trans-cultural issues (new and old minorities; intercultural dialogue; hybridity) and editor of the book series Hybride Welten (“Hybrid Worlds”) as well as a Board member of the European Association of Cultural Researchers (ECURES). Her main research interest is challenging dualistic thinking and acting.
Wim Vandekerckhove: Teaches Business Ethics at the University of Greenwich and has been researching whistleblowing for more than 10 years. He has provided expertise for NGOs, professional bodies, regulators, and the Council of Europe. He holds a PhD in Applied Ethics from Ghent University.
Charlotte Waelde: Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Coventry University, Centre for Dance Research. She recently co-led the AHRC funded project InVisible Difference: Disability, Dance and Law, during which she worked with a number of dancers with disabilities, investigating their daily lives and work, developing and illuminating their place within the copyright framework and the importance of this body of law to their daily practice.
Patricia Wiater: Senior Research Fellow at the University of Munich. She holds a French– German doctorate in Law with a thesis on European Human Rights Law and Cultural Pluralism from the University of Strasbourg, France, and the University of Leipzig, Germany, as well as a doctorate in Political Sciences from the University of Freiburg, Germany. She is currently workingon her Habilitation thesis on international procedural rights of individuals.
Mirosław Wróblewski: Lawyer and political scientist. Since 2007 he acts as Head of the Constitutional, International and European Law Department in the Office of the Ombudsman of Poland. Since 2012 he is a member of the FRA Management Board and from 2015 a member of FRA Executive Committee.
Jessica Wyndham:Associate Director of the Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She is responsible for overseeing the organisation’s human rights activities and coordinates the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition, a network of scientific, engineering, and health associations that recognise the role of science and technology in human rights.
Alexandra Xanthaki: Reader at Brunel University, UK, where she teaches human rights and minority rights. She has published widely on minority and indigenous rights. Her work on cultural rights has been cited widely in scholarship and UN documents.
Athanasios Yupsanis: Currently working as an independent researcher on a comparative analysis of the existing cultural autonomy regimes in Central, Eastern and South – East Europe. He holds a Law Degree, a M.A. degree and a Ph.D. diploma in international law from the Law Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has taught as an adjunct Lecturer at the postgraduate classes of the Law Faculty of Democritus University. His publications include different articles on indigenous and minority rights.