Law

Her book "Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought" (Cambridge University Press, 2022) was characterised by reviewers as "leading", "innovative" and "based on extraordinary research". She has published widely and with leading presses and journals from all around the world on freedom of expression, freedom of religion, harm to self, human dignity, postmodernism and the law, as well as on issues of discrimination on the grounds of religion and disability. Her paper on the Burka Ban comparing freedom of religion in France and the US has been downloaded more than 10,270 times (at: http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol20/iss3/4/ and https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2028341). Her paper "What is the best way to realise rights?" published by the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies in 2019 is featured by Oxford University Press among the papers that have made the most impact in the field of law: https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/best-of-law

Her publications include analyses of hard cases involving freedom of expression and freedom of religion and enforcing antidiscrimination law. In her analysis of these issues she follows innovative comparative and interdisciplinary approaches. She has published an essay on the comparative law methodologies she follows in some of her writings. She is currently working on a project on comparative constitutionalism, on the concept of human dignity and on a comparison of US and EU Anti-Discrimination Law. She is currently co-editing six volumes: a handbook on hate speech, a handbook on antidiscrimination law and religion, a volume on headscarves and the law from a global perspective, a handbook on critiques of human rights, a volume on comparative legal history and a volume on the comparative enforcement of international law with scholars from all over the world. 

She participates in numerous research consortia all around the world. Among others, she is co-leading an International Research Collaborative on 'Headscarves and the Law: Global Perspectives' with scholars from all over the world sponsored by the American Association for Law and Society and the National Sciences Foundation in the US: https://lawandsociety.site-ym.com/page/IRCHeadscarvesLawGlobalPerspectives. She is also co-leading an international research consortium on Antidiscrimination Law and Religion, on Comparative Rights Jurisprudence and a network on criticising human rights law and on the comparative enforcement of international law. She has served as the Chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. She is currently a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law, a member of the plurilinguism Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law and the Chair of the Website Committee of the same society.

She has lectured and delivered guest seminars at numerous Universities all around the world. While at Harvard University, she taught courses on human rights from a comparative and international perspective, jurisprudence, social and political theory. She received Teaching Excellence awards almost every semester she taught at Harvard by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and the Dean of Harvard College. She supervised a number of thesis and served as a member of the Board of Academic Advisors at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies. She has also taught at the University of South Carolina (Comparative Law) and at the Law Department of Carleton University, Canada (Equality-Discrimination).