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SHORT BIO

Yaiza Janssens is an associated postdoctoral research fellow at the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University.

Prior to holding this position, she was an assistant at the faculty of Law and Criminology at Ghent University and PhD fellow.

She promoted to doctor in law on “Sexist street harrasment and the law in Belgium: legal assumptions and lived realities”, on 18 September 2018 at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Ghent University.

WORK DETAILS

ACADEMIC TITLE Dr.

FIRST NAME AND LAST NAME Yaiza Janssens

POSITION Associated Postdoctoral Research Fellow

EMAIL Yaiza.Janssens[@]UGent.be

SECRETARIAT +32 (0)9 264 69 51

POSTAL ADDRESS Ghent University, Campus Aula, Human Rights Centre, Universiteitstraat 4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

  • Associate Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Human Rights Center of Ghent University (2018 – present)
  • Academic assistant / Ph.D. student, Ghent University, Department of European, Public and International Law and Human Rights Centre (2011–2017)

EDUCATION

University degrees

  • Doctor in Law, Ghent University, Belgium (2018)
  • Advanced Master in International Relations and Diplomacy, University of Antwerp, Belgium, 2011.
  • Master in Law, Ghent University, Belgium, 2010.
  • Bachelor in Law, Ghent University, Belgium, 2008.

Additional (inter)national (human rights) courses taken

  • Summer Course ‘Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries’, University of Oslo , Norway, 23 June – 4 August 2012.

TEACHING

  • Academic assistant Human Rights Law, Law and Gender, Multicultural Law, Ghent University, Department of European, Public and International Law and Human Rights Centre (2011–2017)

EXPERTISE

  • Gender and the Law
  • Feminist Legal Theory
  • Women’s Rights
  • Gender and Human Rights

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Yaiza Janssens (2018) Sexist street harassment and the law in Belgium: legal assumptions and lived realities. Doctoral thesis, Ghent University
  • Yaiza Janssens (ed.), Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Belgium (Series editor: J. Nielsen), Leiden: Brill Publishers (forthcoming December 2015).
  • Yaiza Janssens and Sophie Forrez, Ethnic profiling in België: een verkennende wandeling op braakliggend terrein, Cahiers Politiestudies 2(35), 2015, pp. 59-75.
  • Eva Brems, Yaiza Janssens, Kim Lecoyer, Saïla Ouald Chaib, Victoria Vandersteen and Jochgem Vrielink, ‘The Belgian ‘Burqa ban’ confronted with insider realities.’ In Eva Brems (ed.), The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law, Cambridge University press (2014), pp. 77-124.
  • Eva Brems and Yaiza Janssens, ‘Van Abchazië tot Bamiyan : toeslaan waar het pijn doet.’ In: Tollebeek, J. and Van Assche, E. (eds.) Ravage : kunst en cultuur in tijden van conflict. (Leuven: Mercatorfonds, 2014).
  • Eva Brems, Yaiza Janssens, Kim Lecoyer, Saïla Ouald Chaib and Victoria Vandersteen, Wearing the Face Veil in Belgium; Views and Experiences of 27 Women Living in Belgium concerning the Islamic Full Face Veil and the Belgian Ban on Face Covering, Research Report, 2012, at http://www.ugent.be/re/publiekrecht/en/research/human-rights/faceveil.pdf

ALL PUBLICATIONS

All publications by Yaiza Janssens are listed in the ‘Ghent University Academic Bibliography’, YaizaJanssens@BiblioUGent.

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