Prof. Adv. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias

Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her scholarly work is situated at the intersection of constitutional law, legal mechanisms for combating antisemitism, freedom of expression, the protection of vulnerable groups, and the legal governance of historical memory. She is co-editor and co-author of The Politics of Memory Laws: Russia, Ukraine and Beyond (Hart, 2025); Freedom of Religion, Minority Rights and the Law: The Status of Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Europe and Beyond (Routledge, 2025); and Constitutionalism under Stress (Oxford University Press, 2020). She had received numerous fellowships, including at the University of Cambridge, Yale University, New York University and the European University Institute. She was the Principal Investigator in the international research project The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past, funded by the Volkswagen Stiftung (2021–2025), and is currently leading the project Rethinking Militant Democracy Doctrine, supported by the Polish National Science Centre (2024–2027). Alongside her academic work, in her legal practice, she has led a series of strategic litigation initiatives addressing diverse manifestations of xenophobia, racism, and disputes over historical memory. Between June 2024 and August 2025, she served as Head of the Advisory Council to the Polish Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General on counteracting hate crimes and hate speech. In March 2025, she joined the Polish Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and in July 2025 she was appointed as a member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance of the Council of Europe (ECRI). She is also a member of the Research Ethics and Integrity Council of the the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA). For more than fifteen years, she has provided expert support to international organizations (including the Council of Europe, the European Commission, and the OSCE), as well as to international and national NGOs. She regularly contributes to public discourse in Poland and internationally through lectures and presentations at public and academic events as well as through opinion pieces and media appearances.