New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Catherine van de Graaf
Cathérine Van de Graaf is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection (University of Cologne) under the direction of Prof. Angelika Nußberger. She assists in the teaching of “The European Convention on Human Rights: Theory and Practice” as a visiting professor at the Human Rights Centre (Ghent University). In 2021, she obtained a doctorate in law from Ghent University under the supervision of Prof. Eva Brems. In this context, she conducted and published empirical legal research with a focus on procedural justice theory, perceived discrimination and Islamophobia. In 2022, Cathérine obtained a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation for the project “Who is the Court for? Bringing the Human back into Human Rights Research” in which she focuses on empirically mapping out human rights trajectories before the European Court of Human Rights. She is part of the Human Rights Action Team of Ghent University which regularly contributes to Third Party Interventions before the ECtHR and coaches a team of University of Cologne students for the Helga Pedersen Moot Court Competition.