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Bio

Isabelle Rorive is a full professor at the Law Faculty of the ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles). Her research and courses focus on equality and non-discrimination issues as well as on the contemporary challenges that human rights are facing in a global and numerical world. Her academic work is based on comparative, European, international, and interdisciplinary studies. 

For 10 years, she was the director (2012-2018) and the president (2018-2022) of the Centre Perelman. 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 Law Network and a founding board member of the Berkeley Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Isabelle pursues many of her research projects in a European or international setting. Along with Emmanuelle Bribosia, she launched the Equality Law Clinic (ELC) in 2014, of which she is now the director.