Queen Mary University of London

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Having earned degrees from the Universities of Paris, Harvard and Leiden, Eric Heinze has also won grants from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the US Fulbright Foundation, the French Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, and Harvard University. He has worked for the International Commission of Jurists, has advised several NGOs, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Human Rights and the British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. Heinze’s books include Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship (OUP 2016), The Concept of Injustice (Routledge, 2013), The Logic of Constitutional Rights (Ashgate, 2005), The Logic of Liberal Rights (Routledge, 2003), The Logic of Equality (Ashgate, 2003), and Of Innocence and Autonomy: Children, Sex and Human Rights (Ashgate 2000). His writing appears in Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Harvard Human Rights Journal, Modern Law Review, Ratio Juris, Legal Studies, Michigan Journal of International Law, Social and Legal Studies and many other journals and edited collections.

Twitter: @Eric_Heinze_

T. M. C. Asser Instituut – University of Amsterdam

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Uladzislau Belavusau is a Senior Researcher in European law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute – University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Previously he was an Assistant Professor of EU law and human rights at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2011-2015). He holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and an LLM from the Collège d’Europe (Bruges, Belgium). Dr Belavusau has held visiting fellowships at the University of California at Berkeley (USA), Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Heidelberg, Germany), York University (Toronto, Canada), and Tel Aviv University (Israel). He has guest-lectured at the Amsterdam University College, Tilburg University, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (the Netherlands), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), York University (Canada), European University Institute and LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (Italy). He is the author of a monograph Freedom of Speech (Routledge, 2013), and co-editor of Law and Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2017), EU Anti-Discrimination Law (Hart: Oxford, 2018) and Constitutionalism Under Stress (Oxford University Press, 2020).

Twitter: @Ulad_Belavusau

Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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Dr Gliszczyńska-Grabias is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She is an author of a monograph Combating Antisemitism: International Law Instruments (in Polish, Wolters Kluwer 2014). Currently she is co-editing a book Law and Historical Memory (Cambridge University Press, 2017). A recipient of the 2015-2018 Fellowship of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements in science and research, Gliszczyńska-Grabias was also the 2014 Bohdan Winiarski Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge, and Graduate Fellow of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, Yale University (2010/2011). In 2015, she joined the Board of Young Researchers of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland and the Academic Advisory Board of the Community of Democracies. She is an expert in the Council of Europe 'HELP in the 28' programme (“Fight against racism, xenophobia and homophobia”).

Department of Law, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna

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After ten years as a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento (September 2005 – April 2016), Dr Emanuela Fronza is currently a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law at the Department of Juridical Sciences at the University of Bologna, where she teaches European and International Criminal Law. Furthermore, she is Chercheur Associé at the Unité Mixte de Recherche de Droit Comparé of the University of Paris 1. Since 2004, she is a member of the Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudios sobre el Derecho Penal Internacional. She is also member of the Board of Professors of the Doctoral School of the School of International Studies of the University of Trento. Between 2008 and 2012, Fronza served as a fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is the author of a monograph on the criminalization of  historical denialism (Memory and Punishment. Historical denialism, free speech and the limits of criminal law, Asser Press, 2018, forthcoming) and co-author of two books on transitional justice in Latin America: Percorsi giurisprudenziali in tema di gravi violazioni dei diritti umani. Materiali dal laboratorio dell' America Latina (University of Trento, 2011) and Il superamento del passato e il superamento del presente: la punizione delle violazioni sistematiche dei diritti umani nelle esperienze argentina e colombiana (University of Trento, 2009). She is also coauthor of the book Le crime contre l’humanité, PUF, Paris, 2018 (III. ed).

Twitter: @EmanuelaFronza

Dr Nanor Kebranian is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Theory, History, and Human Rights. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford with fellowships from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and Oxford's Clarendon Fund. She joins Queen Mary after serving as Assistant Professor in Columbia University's Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, where she researched, published, and taught on Ottoman history, literary studies, and human rights. Her project for MELA considers the discursive effects of anti-denialist legislation in Turkey and Europe, focusing specifically on minority rights, cultural destruction, and post-conflict reconciliation.

Dr Grażyna Baranowska joins the project as a Postdoctoral Researcher as part of the Polish team. She defended her PhD thesis on “Enforced disappearances in Europe. Developing international standards of prevention and reaction” in the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in May 2016. In her work in the MELA project, she will concentrate on conflicts between memory laws and freedom of speech, integrating ECtHR jurisprudence and UN-level relevant norms and policies. She completed her studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Humboldt University Berlin and Kafkas University in Kars, Turkey. Previously she has been a researcher in the project Fostering Human Rights Among European (Internal and External) Policies, funded through the EU’s Seventh Framework Program and worked in the German Bundestag. Additionally she has organized a number of human rights courses and workshops.

Dr. León Castellanos-Jankiewicz is Researcher in International Human Rights Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute, where he is a member of the MELA consortium (‘Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspectives’). His research focuses on the history of international law, comparative constitutional law and international legal theory. Previously, León was Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and Lecturer in the Law of International Organizations at Bocconi University, Milan. He has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (2017), Vienna’s Institute for Human Sciences (2016) and Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program (2015-16). In 2017-2018, he received a postdoctoral grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation to conduct research on the entwined history of national civil codes, private international law and international human rights law. León holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (2017) and an MA in International Law from the Graduate Institute (2010).

Twitter: @leoncastjan

Dr. Paolo Caroli (Trento, 1986) is a practicing attorney and is teaching assistant of International Criminal Law in the universities of Trento and Bologna. In 2017 he defended his PhD (cum laude) at the University of Trento about the Italian experience of transitional justice after World War II. In 2012 he worked as intern in the International Crimes and Accountability team of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin and he still collaborates with the center as ECCHR alumnus. He also works as journalist.

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Ms Marina Bán is a PhD Researcher for the MELA team based in the Netherlands. She is working on her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr Uladzislau Belavusau and Professor Dr Janne Nijman at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in the Hague, on secondment from the University of Amsterdam. She holds a BA in History from Eotvos Lorand University and an MA in Human Rights from Central European University (both in Budapest, Hungary). In her thesis, she compares the legal governance of memory in France and Hungary, and studies its compatibility with European and international law. She has previously worked for different human rights NGOs in Budapest (Hatter Society for LGBT People and Amnesty International Hungary), mostly dealing with preparing and translating research materials, fundraising and human rights education. Her other research interests include European history (especially of Hungary during and after the communist era), LGBT rights and freedom of expression.

Twitter: @marinaban91

Anna Wójcik is a MELA Researcher on the PhD track at the Institute of Law Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences. She holds Master of Arts degrees in Law from the University of Warsaw and in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Central European University in Budapest. Moreover, Anna obtained BAs in philosophy and cultural anthropology from the University of Warsaw in a framework of Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences and completed a semester abroad at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sorbonne Paris-IV. A native Polish speaker, she is fluent in English and French and conversational in Russian. Her up-to-date research interests include, but are not limited to, freedom of expression and comparative hate speech policies, as well as political theory, and law and society. In her PhD project, Anna will focus on developments of memory laws in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of transitional justice and memory politics.

Twitter: @annawojcik

Cris van Eijk is a project assistant for the Dutch team and an intern at the T.M.C. Asser Institute. He holds an LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University, where he wrote his thesis comparing trends in the treaty applicability processes of the judiciaries of the United States and European Union. He previously graduated from Leiden University College The Hague in 2017 with a BA cum laude in Liberal Arts and Sciences, majoring in International Justice. Previously, Cris interned for the Civil Society Initiatives program at the International Commission on Missing Persons, where, among other projects, he researched commemoration practices for missing persons and worked on a comparative analysis of the rights of families of missing persons. He is interested in anti-discrimination law, human rights, transitional justice, international criminal law, outer space law, and comparative foreign relations law. He is a native English speaker, conversational in Dutch, and literate in Spanish. He will be pursuing an accelerated BA in Law at Cambridge University in October 2019.

Twitter: @crisveijk