Eva Brems joined the Ghent University Law Faculty in September 2000 as the first holder of the then newly created chair of Human Rights Law. Before that, she studied law at the universities of Namur (candidat 1989), Leuven (licenciaat 1992) and Harvard (LL.M 1995). She was a PhD researcher at the University of Leuven (1995-1999) and a lecturer at Maastricht University (1999-2000). At Ghent University, she founded the Human Rights Centre. Her research interests cover most areas of human rights law, in European and international law as well as in Belgian and comparative law, with a particular emphasis on the protection of the rights of non-dominant groups and individuals. She has a keen interest in multi- and interdisciplinary research. She has been an activist in the board of several Belgian human rights NGOs, including as the chair of the Flemish section Amnesty International (2006-2010), and she was briefly active in politics (as a member of the Belgian federal Chamber of Representatives, 2010-2014).
Giselle Corradi is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre at the Law Faculty of Ghent University. She studied law in Buenos Aires before moving to Ghent, where she completed her Masters in Comparative Studies of Culture (2005) and her PhD in Law (2012). Her PhD research dealt with the role of international development actors regarding human rights and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa, with case studies in Sierra Leone and Mozambique. Before joining the Human Rights Centre as a researcher in 2008, she worked as a consultant for fair trade projects in Guatemala and Peru for the Durabilis Foundation (2006-2007). In her current position as a researcher she combines her expertise in the domains of law, anthropology and development, with particular attention for gender. She is also a board member of the Flemish Interuniversity Research Network on Law and Development Law&Dev and of the Commission of Legal Pluralism. She is also a member of the human rights component of the VLIR-UOS Institutional Cooperation Programme with Mozambique DESAFIO and she is editorial assistant for the “journal Human Rights and International Legal Discourse” (HRILD).
