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Global & Senior Global Research Fellows
Academic Year 2005-2006
Dr. Julie Ringelheim
Global Research and Center for Human Rights and Global Justice Fellow
Dr. Julie Ringelheim has been a researcher at the Center of Philosophy of Law of the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, since 2003. In 1998, she graduated with a degree in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and was awarded an LL.M. in 1999 from Trinity Hall College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, where she specialized in international law and jurisprudence. Between 1999 and 2005, she wrote her Ph.D. thesis at the European University Institute, Italy, on Cultural Diversity in the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law. She also was a visiting researcher at the University of Paris XI in Spring 2003. Her areas of interests include international human rights law, minority protection, anti-discrimination law, public international law, legal and political theory.
Her current research focuses on the tension between the promotion of equality and the protection of personal data. It is based on a comparative study of the legislation and policies adopted by the U.S. and several European countries to combat racial, ethnic or religious discrimination in the fields of employment, education and housing. The project seeks to define ways in which the sometimes conflicting imperatives of the affirmative pursuance of equality and the protection of personal data may be reconciled.