Isabelle Rorive

Isabelle Rorive is a full professor at the Law Faculty of the ULB (University of Brussels) where she teaches Human Rights, Equality and non-discrimination Law, Comparative Law and Legal Theory. 

During 10 years, Isabelle Rorive was the director (2012-2018) and the president (2018-2022) of the Centre Perelman of the ULB. As the advisor of the Vice-Chancellor and the President of the ULB for the equality and diversity policy, a senior expert member of the European Equality Network and a founding board member of the Berkeley Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Isabelle Rorive pursues many of her research projects in a European or international setting while ensuring that they are grounded in contemporary issues and practice. 

With Emmanuelle Bribosia, she launched the Equality Law Clinic (ELC) in 2014 of which she is now the director. In March 2025, she was elected to the Académie royale de Belgique as a full member of the Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques in recognition of her academic and societal contributions. See her publications on her university website: https://centreperelman.be/en/team/isabelle-rorive-3/

Luca Maria Recalcati

After earning a degree in Ecology, he began his career as an academic researcher. He then pursued a diversified career path, working in international companies in the life sciences sector. He held roles of increasing responsibility in marketing and communications, contributing to the strategic development of products and managing market relations.

He subsequently specialized in human resources, holding management positions in major multinational groups. He coordinated activities related to personnel management, organizational development, D&I and occupational safety, with assignments at the European and global levels.

He led mergers and acquisitions, overseeing the integration of teams and structures in various geographical areas, with a focus on Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

At the same time, he played an active role in trade union and consultative committees at the European level, contributing to the dialogue between companies and workers and the development of D&I. He has served on boards of directors in the educational and social sectors, supporting training and inclusion initiatives and developing HR organizational consulting services.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Sodalitas Foundation and is dedicated to promoting workplace inclusion, eliminating diversity, and developing skills among young people through communication activities and targeted projects.

Olivia Bonardi

Olivia Bonardi insegna diritto del lavoro e diritto antidiscriminatorio presso il Dipartimento di Scienze sociali e politiche, si occupa di salute e sicurezza sul lavoro, discriminazioni, logistica e sfruttamento lavorativo. É autrice di numerosi saggi pubblicati sulle principali riviste di diritto del lavoro e delle monografie “L’utilizzazione indiretta dei lavoratori (FrancoAngeli ed., 2001) e “Sistemi di welfare e principio di eguaglianza” (Giappichelli, 2012). Tra gli ultimi scritti di diritto antidiscriminatorio vi sono: Il valore del lavoro e la questione salariale al femminile, in Lav. Dir., n. 4/2025, p. 639, Le soluzioni ragionevoli per i disabili come tecnica di prevenzione delle discriminazioni, in Riv. Giur. lav., 2024, n. 3, p. 376, L'accomodamento ragionevole: rimedio o nuova forma di discriminazione?, in Aa.Vv., Quaderni Ien, Italian Equality Network, n. 1, 2024.

Mariagrazia Militello

Mariagrazia Militello is an Associate Professor of Labour Law at the University of Catania, where she teaches Antidiscrimination Law at the Department of Law, and Labour Law at the Department of Political Science. She obtained a PhD in European Labour Law in 2007. She is the Department of Law’s delegate for equal opportunities and is responsible for implementing the Alias Regulation for the University.

She is a member of the Centre for the study of European Labour Law “Massimo D’Antona”, of the editorial boards of Diritti lavori mercati and Diritto delle relazioni industriali, and serves on both the Editorial Board and the Coordination Committee of the journal Diritto del lavoro OPEN – Labour Law.

Giuseppe Antonio Recchia

Giuseppe Antonio Recchia is Associate Professor of Labour Law at the University of Bari Aldo Moro. His main research interests lie in trade union law and industrial relations, anti-discrimination law, business transformations and platform work. He serves on the Executive Board of AISRI (the Italian Association for the Study of Industrial Relations) and is among is the coordinators of the Editorial Board of the Anti\Discriminazione Journal, launched by the Italian Equality Network.

Margrethe Søbstad

Margrethe Søbstad works as a legal director at the Norwegian Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud. She is an author of the legal commentary for the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act at the Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget). Former work experience includes, inter alia, the Ministry of Justice, lawyer in corporate law and position as an assistant judge. 

Vibeke Blaker Strand

Vibeke Blaker Strand is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway. She specializes in equality and non-discrimination law and human rights law, and has published extensively in these fields. She is responsible for the course “Equality and Non-discrimination Law,” which is taught annually at the Faculty.

For more information, see: https://www.jus.uio.no/ior/english/people/aca/vibekbla/index.html

Saska Jovanovic

Saška Jovanović is a Roma women’s rights activist, trainer, intercultural mediator, and project coordinator based in Rome. She is the founder of Romni APS and ROWNI – Roma Women Network Italy. For more than 20 years, she has worked on Roma inclusion, women’s empowerment, anti-discrimination, access to justice, and human rights, cooperating with national and European institutions, NGOs, and grassroots communities. She has coordinated and contributed to numerous EU-funded projects, with a particular focus on Roma women, combating antigypsyism, media and racism, digital inclusion, and social participation. Saška is also a public speaker, researcher, legal interpreter, and author, committed to strengthening the voice and leadership of Roma women in Europe.

Marie Mercat-Bruns

Marie Mercat-Bruns is a Full University Professor at Sciences Po Law School and director of the SciencesPo Law Clinic. She codirects the Gender program at SciencesPo (Presage). Since 2019, she is the European network expert in France on gender equality for the EU Commission.

Link to her biography and publications: https://www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/fr/mercat-bruns-marie

Rosemary Hunter
The gendered politics of judicial knowledge: Stereotypical reasoning as a prompt for feminist rewriting

Rosemary Hunter is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Founding Head of Law at Loughborough University, UK. She is also one of the founders of the now-global feminist judgments movement. She was involved in the organisation of the UK, Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Feminist Judgment Projects and co-edited their collections of judgments, and has advised and supported numerous other projects. She is a well-known feminist socio-legal scholar, and former chair of the RCSL Working Group on Gender and Law and of the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association. Her current research focuses on family justice and judging and the judiciary.

Sara De Vido
Judicial Gender Stereotyping Before the ECtHR: The Scuderoni v. Italy and J.L v Italy cases 

Sara De Vido is full professor of international law at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, where she teaches international law, EU law and human rights law. She is delegate of the rector for gender equality.
Her research focuses on preventing and combating GBVAW at the international and European Union level, and on critical approaches to international law, in particular ecofeminism. She was PI of the project Gendering International Legal Responses to Chronic Emergencies. She co-edited the first Commentary on the Council of Europe Istanbul Convention (Elgar 2023).
She is senior expert on VAW at the European Equality Law Network and legal expert for the EU Network on preventing GBV and domestic violence established by the DG JUST (European Commission).

Dolores Morondo Taramundi
Gender Adjudication in the CJEU Jurisprudence 

Dolores Morondo Taramundi is an associate professor at the University of Deusto (Bilbao) and a researcher of its Human Rights Institute.
She obtained a PhD in law from the European University Institute in Fiesole (2003) with a dissertation on the difference dilemma in the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has taught courses in philosophy of law, history and philosophy of human rights, and international human rights protection. She is a member of the European Network of Legal Experts on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the European Commission. Her main areas of research and publication are anti-discrimination law, critical legal theories, human rights, and legal methodology.

Alexandra Timmer
CEDAW’s Evolving Approach to Gender Stereotyping: Towards the Recommendation No. 41 

Alexandra Timmer is associate professor of human rights law at Utrecht University. She is Co-Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and Co-Director of the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe (RENFORCE). Her research focuses on (in)equality and non-discrimination in EU law, the European Convention on Human Rights, international human rights treaties, and Dutch law. She is Member of the Dutch State Commission against Discrimination and Racism and senior coordinator gender equality of the European Network of Legal Experts in Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination. Together with Linda Senden and Susanne Burri, she wrote EU Gender Equality Law: Concepts, Practice Challenges, which will be published by OUP in August 2026.

Joy Milligan

Joy Milligan is a Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she researches, writes, and teaches on civil rights, constitutional law, the administrative state, legal history and civil procedure.  Before entering academia, Milligan practiced civil rights law at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.  She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University Law School and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence & Social Policy from UC Berkeley.

David Oppenheimer

David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and Co-Director of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law. He holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School. In his clinical and pro bono work he has handled discrimination and harassment cases concerned with race, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, and religion in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies. He and his students have filed amicus curie briefs numerous courts.  He is the author or editor of ten books and scores of articles on US and global discrimination law. His newest book, The Diversity Principle: The story of a Transformative Idea, was published in 2026 by Yale University Press.

Shreya Atrey

Shreya Atrey is an Associate Professor in International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and is based at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She is an associate member of the Oxford Human Rights Hub, an Official Fellow of Kellogg College and a Senior Teaching Fellow at New College. Shreya's monograph, Intersectional Discrimination (OUP 2019), which was runner-up for the Peter Birds Book Prize in 2020, presents an account of intersectionality theory in comparative discrimination law. Her work has been cited by the Supreme Court of India and the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Shreya in the Editor of the Human Rights Law Review published by OUP. Previously, she was based at the University of Bristol Law School and has been a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at the NYU School of Law, New York. She completed BCL with distinction and DPhil in Law on the Rhodes Scholarship from Magdalen College, University of Oxford.  

Marzia Barbera

Marzia Barbera is Professor Emerita of the University of Brescia; chair of the association LLC (Labor Law Community); member of: the National Coordination Association of Italian Legal Clinics, the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law (BCCE), the  Italian Equality Network (IEN), the Steering Committee  of  the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE); the European Network for Clinical Legal Education (ENCLE). She is co-editor of the legal journals Labour Law OPEN and Anti\Discriminazione and member of the directors of the Giornale di lavoro e di relazioni industriali  and of the referees committee of Rivista giuridica del lavoro e della previdenza sociale, Diritto, lavoro, mercati, Lavoro e diritto, Rivista critica di diritto privato, About gender. She is author and editor of several books and articles on labour law, EU law, anti discrimination law, international human rights, clinical education and public interest litigation.

Panos Kapotas

Dr Panos Kapotas is an Associate Professor in Equality and Human Rights Law at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, where he is also the joint Associate Head – Research and Innovation and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Equality, Gender and Inclusion Studies (AEGIS). He holds degrees in Law from NKUA (Athens), UCL (UK) and LSE (UK) and he has published in English and in Greek, including edited volumes on European consensus (Building Consensus on European Consensus: Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond, CUP, 2019) and on human dignity and democracy in Europe (Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe: Synergies, Tensions and Crises, Edward Elgar, 2022). Panos is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Berkeley Center of Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, and a co-Investigator in the RE-WIRING project (Realising Girls’ and Women’s Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment), funded under the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. 

Panos Kapotas

Dr Panos Kapotas is an Associate Professor in Equality and Human Rights Law at the University of Portsmouth in the UK, where he is also the joint Associate Head – Research and Innovation and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Equality, Gender and Inclusion Studies (AEGIS). He holds degrees in Law from NKUA (Athens), UCL (UK) and LSE (UK) and he has published in English and in Greek, including edited volumes on European consensus (Building Consensus on European Consensus: Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond, CUP, 2019) and on human dignity and democracy in Europe (Human Dignity and Democracy in Europe: Synergies, Tensions and Crises, Edward Elgar, 2022). Panos is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Berkeley Center of Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, and a co-Investigator in the RE-WIRING project (Realising Girls’ and Women’s Inclusion, Representation and Empowerment), funded under the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. 

Mattia Peradotto

Mattia Peradotto, born in 1989, graduated in Management Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano and attended an international exchange programme at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
He has gained professional experience in institutional and administrative roles within the Parliament, the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, and national and international organisations, focusing on institutional coordination, public affairs, equal opportunities and anti-discrimination policies.
Since August 2022, he has served as Director General of UNAR – the National Office against Racial Discrimination – operating within the Department for Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Sandra Konstatzk

Sandra Konstatzky studied law at the University of Vienna with a special focus on legal gender studies. She has held various positions (focusing on gender and employment) at the Ombud for Equal Treatment since 2003. Since 2018, she has been Director of the Ombud for Equal Treatment, whose mission is to combat discrimination and promote equality. She is also a board member of EQUINET, the European network of equality bodies. Her work was recognized with the Justitia Award in 2023 and with an Austrian Administration Prize in 2021. She is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Vienna and at the European Law Academy in Trier, and a board member of the feminist legal association „Die Jurist:innen“. 

Esther Janssen

Esther Janssen is Deputy Secretary of the Dutch State Commission against Discrimination and Racism. She led the Commission’s report on introducing a Public Sector Equality Duty for the Netherlands and coordinated the expert report on the Future of Dutch Equality Law. Earlier in her career, she worked as an attorney-at-law specialising in human rights litigation.

Guri Hestflått Gabrielsen 

Guri Gabrielsen has a law-degree from the University of Oslo where she specialised in Human Rights Law, and a degree in public international law from the LSE.
She has held various positions in the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Foreign Affairs relating to development of national law and human rights law. She was the head of the Norwegian delegation in the final stage of the UN-negotiations of the CRPD. From 2010 she has been a part of the LDO team, now as Human Rights Policy Director. Her focus is in particular the Ombuds mandate to monitor the CEDAW, CERD and CRPD, and to improve the implementation of human rights in law and practice – in close cooperation with other national human rights bodes, such as the Norway’s national Institution for human rights. 

Margrethe Søbstad  

Margrethe Søbstad works as a legal director at the Norwegian Equality and Anti-Discrimination Ombud. She is an author of the legal commentary for the Equality and Anti-Discrimination Act at the Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget). Former work experience includes, inter alia, the Ministry of Justice, lawyer in corporate law and position as an assistant judge. 

Amy Oppenheimer

Amy Oppenheimer (Playwright/Solo Performer), a lesbian feminist lawyer and retired judge, has spent her 45-year legal career advocating for women and people of color and speaking truth to power. She is co-author of Investigating Workplace Harassment: How to be Fair, Thorough and Legal (SHRM 2002).

David Ford

David Ford (Director) has been collaborating on new and unusual theatre for three decades and has been associated with The Marsh for most of that time. The San Francisco press has variously called him the solo performer maven, the monologue maestro and the dean of solo performance.

Julia McNeal

Julia McNeal (Performance Coach) is a coach for solo artists, authors, and others who appear publicly, both in performance-based and personal-appearance formats. Her acclaimed character creation technique 5 Ways In to Character is available to creators of all kinds, in workbook form.