dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias

dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias
dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias

assistant professor

dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias

Professor at the Institute of Law Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research and expert work focuses on issues of comparative constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, freedom of speech, and memory laws. She is co-editor and co-author of the books Constitutionalism under Stress (OUP, 2020) and The Politics of Memory Laws Russia, Ukraine and Beyond (OUP, 2025). She was a fellow at the universities of Cambridge, Yale, and the European University Institute. She has worked as an expert for the Council of Europe in programs related to anti-discrimination law. She co-leads international research projects, including ‘The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past’ (2021–2025). She has conducted research under grants awarded by, among others, the National Science Centre, the Rothschild Foundation, the Open Society Foundations, the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University, and the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University. From July 2024 to August 2025, she chaired the Expert Council to the Attorney General of Poland on Hate Crimes and Hate Speech. Since March 2025, she has been a delegate to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. She regularly participates in public discourse in Poland and internationally, speaking at public and academic events (including at NYU, Harvard, Yale, Oxford, and Georgetown universities) and commenting in the media on topics in which she specializes.

Selected publications:

  • 2025: The Politics of Memory Laws in Times of War: Russia, Ukraine and Beyond. Hart. (eds. with: U. Belavusau, A. Nussberger, M. Malksoo).

  • 2025: Anti-Roma Hate Speech Before the European Court of Human Rights. Revisiting the Concept of Vulnerability in the Human Rights Paradigm. Kristin Henrard, Lilla Farkas (eds.), The Rights of Roma in European Courts: Strategic Litigation and the Boundaries of Human Rights. Oxford (with: A. Śledzińska-Simon).

  • 2025: Freedom of Religion, Minority Rights and the Law. The Status of Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Europe and Beyond. Routledge (eds. with A. Hacohen).

  • 2024: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs), the Governance of Historical Memory in the Rule of Law Crisis, and EU Anti-SLAPP Directive. European Constitutional Law Review 4 (with: A. Bodnar).

  • 2024: Mnemonic Constitutionalism, Historical Memory, and Collective Identity in Poland, Germany and Russia. Mark V. Tushnet and Dimitry Kochenov (eds.), Routledge Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law. Routledge.

  • 2023: Is It Polexit Yet? Comment on Case K 3/21 of 7 October 2021 by the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland. European Constitutional Law Review 19(1) (with: W. Sadurski).

  • 2022: Intersection of Conflicting Values: Symbols of Memory and Acts of Artistic Expression. East European Politics and Societies 37(2).

  • 2021: Memory Laws and Memory Wars in Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Jahrbuch des Öffentlichen Rechts der Gegenwart 69(1) (with: U. Belavusau i M. Mälksoo).

  • 2021: ‘Never Again’ as a Cornerstone of the Strasbourg System: The Reminiscence of the Holocaust in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. Helmut Ast, Esra Demir (eds.), The European Court of Human Rights: Current Challenges in Historical and Comparative Perspective. Edward Elgar.

  • 2020: Constitutionalism under Stress. Oxford University Press (eds. with: U. Belavusau).