Eva Brems teaches Advanced Study of Human Rights at the University of Ghent. She is Principal Investigator in the ERC Starting Grant project on ‘Strengthening the European Court of Human Rights: More Accountability through Better Legal Reasoning’ (2009-2014), the research team of which maintains a blog on the case law of the ECtHR (Strasbourg Observers) which serves as an important resource for the Grassrootsmobilise programme.
Professor Eva Brems
Professor Louis–Léon Christians
Louis-Léon Christians is Chair of the Law of Religions at the Université Catholique de Louvain, President of the multidisciplinary research institute on Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures and Societies and responsible for the multidisciplinary Masters Degree on the Science of Religions. He supervises a Marie Curie research project on Christian Orthodoxy and Human Rights.
Professor Grace Davie
Professor Marie-Claire Foblets
Professor Haldun Gülalp
Haldun Gülalp recently retired as Professor of Political Science at Yıldız Technical University, and is currently chair of the Global Studies and Class Strategies (GSCS) research group, in Istanbul, Turkey. He holds doctoral degrees in Economics from Ankara University and in Sociology from Binghamton University.
Professor Matthias Koenig
Matthias Koenig is professor of sociology of religion at the University of Göttingen and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. His current research focuses on the role of law in the civic integration of religious minorities; in that context, he is studying litigation and jurisprudence at the ECtHR and their impact upon domestic arrangements of secularism and public religion.
Professor Nikos Kokosalakis
Dr Dilek Kurban
Dilek Kurban is the Marie Curie Fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Turkey expert of the European Commission’s Network of Independent Experts in the non-discrimination field. Before joining the Hertie School, she was the Mercator-IPC Fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin. Her work focuses on minority rights, media freedom and anti-discrimination in Turkey, as well as European human rights law.
Professor David Martin
It is with great sadness that we report the loss of a much-valued member of our Advisory Board and a great, in every sense of the term, sociologist of religion, David Martin. David was amongst the first readers of the draft proposal for the Grassrootsmobilise research programme, at a time when his support and enthusiasm were invaluable to Effie Fokas. He will be greatly missed by a broad community touched by his work and life. Another member of our Advisory Board – Grace Davie – reflects on his rich life here.
Professor Javier Martínez-Torrón
Javier Martínez-Torrón is professor of law at Complutense University (Madrid) and holds a PhD in canon law. In the field of religion, he focuses on conscientious objection, the historical influence of canon law on the Anglo-American legal tradition, the international protection of religious freedom and, specifically, ECtHR religious freedoms jurisprudence.
Professor Pål Repstad
Professor Julie Ringelheim
Julie Ringelheim is Professor of international human rights law and sociology of law at the Université Catholique de Louvain. She has worked extensively on the concept of reasonable accommodation, in the ECtHR context and beyond, with the aim to elaborate a new conception of equality law that would be able to respond fairly and consistently to three essential challenges faced by contemporary societies, namely ‘non-discrimination,’ ‘redistribution’ and ‘recognition.’