Protecting human rights and fighting Antisemitism: do they go hand in hand?
Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences and member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists. Expert in anti-discrimination law, freedom of speech and memory laws. She is co-editor and co-author of Constitutionalism under Stress(OUP, 2020) and Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History(CUP, 2017). She was Bohdan Winiarski Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre of the University of Cambridge, Fellow at the Yale University Initiative for the Study of Antisemitism and Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute. Principal Investigator in international research consortiums ‘Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective’ (2016-2019) and ‘The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past’ (2021–2024). Apart from her academic and expert work, she co-leads Public Interest Strategic Litigation Program at Dentons global law firm, Polish branch.