Dr. Yaiza Janssens

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Email Yaiza.Janssens[@]UGent.be
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Dr. Yaiza Janssens' 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.

Dr. Yaiza Janssens' Featured Research Projects

Gender equality, sexual and reproductive rights, LGBTIQ Rights

Sexist street harassment and the law in Belgium: legal assumptions and lived realities

By Dr. Yaiza Janssens & Prof. Dr. Eva Brems

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Dr. Yaiza Janssens' Publications

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Dr. Yaiza Janssens' 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)

Dr. Yaiza Janssens' 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.

Dr. Yaiza Janssens' Sideline activities

Co-author of the third party interventionZeshun Muhammad v Spain

Dr. Yaiza Janssens' work details

Postal Address: Ghent University, Campus Aula, Human Rights Centre, Universiteitstraat 4, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Dr. Yaiza Janssens' expertise

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

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