Francesco Alicino
is Full Professor in Public Law and Religion and Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Law of the Third Sector, and Immigration Law at lum University. He is also a member at the Italian Council for the relationship with Muslim communities at the Italian Minister of the Interior.
Alexandra Cosima Budabin
is Senior Researcher at the Eurac Research Institute for Minority Rights (Bolzano-Bozen – Italy) where she researches transnational advocacy around minority rights, cultural heritage, conflict, and security.
Alessandro Ferrari
is Full Professor at the University of Insubria where he directs the Center for Research “REligione, Diritto ed Economia nello Spazio Mediterraneo” (redesm). His research looks at religious freedom in Europe and Mediterranean spaces.
Silvio Ferrari
is Distinguished Fellow at the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento and has taught law and religion and comparative law of religions for many years at the Universities of Parma, Turin, Milan, Leuven and Strasbourg. He is honorary president of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies (iclars).
Kiryl Kascian
is a Board Member at the International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Prague. His primary research areas are constitutional law, minority rights, political representation and electoral behaviour with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe.
Elham Manea
is a Privatdozentin at the Political Science Institute, University of Zurich. Her research focuses on countries of the Arabian Peninsula, Gender & Women under Muslim Laws, and Islamism. She has published academic and nonfiction books in English, German, and Arabic.
is Senior Researcher and Group Leader for Equality and Diversity in Integrated Societies at the Eurac Research Institute for Minority Rights (Bolzano/Bozen – Italy) where her research focuses on international law, minority issues, human rights, diversity governance and minority protection.
Anna Parrilli
is Post-doctoral research fellow in comparative public law at the University of Verona. Her research focuses on state secularism, legal pluralism, Muslim and Jewish law, and minority rights.
Kyriaki Topidi
is Senior Researcher and head of the research cluster on “Culture & Diversity” at the European Centre for Minority Issues. Her research interests focus on diversity management, minority protection rights and mechanisms, and human rights law.
Christos Tsevas
is an Adjunct Lecturer in International Human Rights and Refugee Law at the Democritus University of Thrace. He has worked as an asylum expert with unhcr, icmc and the Greek Asylum Appeals Committees. His research focuses on public, human rights, refugee and migration law.
Hanna Vasilevich
is Chair of the Board of the International Centre for Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity Studies, Prague. Her research interests include state ideology and propaganda, identity issues, conflict resolution, interethnic relations, national and religious minorities.
Avishalom Westreich
is Associate Professor at the College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, Israel, and a Research Fellow at the Kogod Research Center for Contemporary Jewish Thought at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. His research focuses on modern family law and the Talmudic laws of tort.
Elimelech (Melech) Westreich
is a professor (Emeritus) of Law at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He has written many articles on Jewish law, especially on family topics, commercial instruments, and bioethics.
has worked as Researcher at the Eurac Research Institute for Minority Rights (Bolzano-Bozen – Italy) where her research focused on the rights of religious minorities and the governance of religious diversity, Islamic pluralism, gender and human rights.