Home › Colleges & Schools▻College of Business, Public Policy and Law▻School of Law▻Staff Profiles

Staff Profiles

Dr Ioanna Tourkochoriti

LLB., LLM., MA., PhD

 
researcher
 

Biography

Ioanna Tourkochoriti is a legal scholar working on issues of human rights, constitutional law and jurisprudence from a comparative perspective. Before joining the Law Faculty at NUI Galway she held for eight years research and Faculty appointments at Harvard University. She was a Wertheim Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School and a Lecturer on Law and Social Studies at the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard University. She was also a Visiting Professor at the Department of Law at Carleton University, Canada. During Academic year 2019-2020 she was a Visiting Fellow at LSE's Law Department.

She received her PhD (in Law) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Paris, France. Her dissertation (740p.) was awarded the Highest Academic Distinction. She received a Masters in Political Theory from EHESS - Paris, and an L.L.M. in Public Law from Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, France. She holds an L.L.B. in Law (4 year law degree) from Athens Law School, Greece. She has received a number of Fellowships and honors from the Greek State and the European Union. In December 2019 she was awarded a Simon Robert Fellowship by LSE's Law Department.

Her book "Freedom of Speech: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought" (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) was characterised by reviewers as "leading", "innovative" and "based on extraordinary research". It analyses the understanding of liberty and of the role of the government in France and the US since the American and the French revolutions. It argues that the difference in the understanding of the role of the government affects the understanding of all legal actors in defining the content and the limits of liberty and in balancing liberties in conflict. It engages with major political theorists and discusses how they were read and understood by political actors on the two sides of the Atlantic. 

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 9,635 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 the concept of human dignity and on a comparison of US and EU Employment Discrimination Law. She is co-editing volumes on a broad range of topics related to human rights, antidiscrimination law, freedom of expression and constitutional revolutions with scholars from all over the world. She is also organizing relevant workshops and conferences.

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: https://lawandsociety.site-ym.com/page/IRCHeadscarvesLawGlobalPerspectives. She is also co-leading an international research consortium on Antidiscrimination Law and Religion and on Comparative Rights Jurisprudence. She has served as the Chair of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law (2018-2019). 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).

Apart from being a legal theorist she has also practical experience as a lawyer. She has handled human rights cases at the European Court of Human Rights and has served as an Investigator with the Human Rights Division of the Greek Ombudsman.

At NUIG she is the Convenor of the Legal and Political Theory Events Series, an interdisciplinary forum in the University that organizes Workshops, Lectures and other Events on issues of current interest. She is also a member of the Gender ARC (Advanced Research Consortium on Gender, Culture and the Knowledge Society) and she participates in The Gender and Public Policy (GPP) research group. 

For publications and works in progress see also: 
 
Harvard Scholar

Academia.edu

SSRN
















Books

  Year Publication
(2021) Freedom of Expression: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2021) Freedom of Expression: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2020) 'How Far Should the State go to Counter Prejudice?'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) 'How Far Should the State go to Counter Prejudice?'. Erasmus Law Review, [Details]
(2019) 'What is the best way to realize rights?'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) 'What is the best way to realize rights?'. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 39 (1):209-228 [Details]
(2017) 'Comparative Rights Jurisprudence: An Essay on Methodologies'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) 'Comparative Rights Jurisprudence: An Essay on Methodologies'. Law and Method, [Details]
(2016) 'Speech, Privacy and Dignity in France and in the USA: A Comparative Analysis'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) 'Speech, Privacy and Dignity in France and in the USA: A Comparative Analysis'. Loyola Los Angeles International & Comparative Law Review, 38 [Details]
(2015) ''Disparate Impact and 'Indirect Discrimination' Assessing Responses to Systemic Discrimination in the U.S. and the E.U'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2015) ''Disparate Impact and 'Indirect Discrimination' Assessing Responses to Systemic Discrimination in the U.S. and the E.U'. European Journal of Human Rights, 2015 (3):297-324 [Details]
(2014) 'The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) 'The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance'. University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 36 (2):459-524 [Details]
(2014) 'Healthcare Reform in the U.S. Constitutional Equilibrium'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) 'Healthcare Reform in the U.S. Constitutional Equilibrium'. Charlotte Law Review, 5 (3):405-469 [Details]
(2014) 'The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the U.S.-E.U. Divide in Data Privacy Protection'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) 'The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the U.S.-E.U. Divide in Data Privacy Protection'. University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review, 36 :161-176 [Details]
(2014) 'Should Hate Speech be Protected? Group Defamation, Party Bans, Holocaust denial and the Divide between Europe - U.S.A'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) 'Should Hate Speech be Protected? Group Defamation, Party Bans, Holocaust denial and the Divide between Europe - U.S.A'. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 45 :552-622 [Details]
(2013) 'Revisiting Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C.: the Road not Taken'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2013) 'Revisiting Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C.: the Road not Taken'. Tulsa Law Review, 49 :47-98 [Details]
(2012) 'Should Attempted Suicide be Criminalised?'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2012) 'Should Attempted Suicide be Criminalised?'. Criminal Law Bulletin, 48 :1307-1325 [Details]
(2012) 'The Burka Ban: Divergent Approaches to Freedom of Religion in France and in the U.S.A'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2012) 'The Burka Ban: Divergent Approaches to Freedom of Religion in France and in the U.S.A'. William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal, 20 :791-852 [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2020) 'Bill of Rights'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) 'Bill of Rights' In: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. UK: Oxford University Press. [Details]
(2020) 'Privacy and Speech'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) 'Privacy and Speech' In: The Oxford Handbook on Freedom of Speech. Oxford: Frederick Schauer and Adrienne Stone ed. Oxford University Press. [Details]
(2019) 'Beyond Legal Positivism in Transnational Law'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) 'Beyond Legal Positivism in Transnational Law' In: Legal Positivism under Processes of Globalization and Transnationalism. UK: Springer, Law and Philosophy. [Details]
(2017) 'Challenging Historical Facts and National Truths: An Analysis of Cases from France and Greece'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) 'Challenging Historical Facts and National Truths: An Analysis of Cases from France and Greece' In: Law and Memory: Addressing Historical Injustice through Law. UK: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
(2017) 'Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the migration of the US Disparate Impact Doctrine in EU Law'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) 'Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the migration of the US Disparate Impact Doctrine in EU Law' In: EU LAW STORIES. UK: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
(2010) 'Is abuse of the right to harm to self conceivable?'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2010) 'Is abuse of the right to harm to self conceivable?' In: The Aim in the Law. Paris, Athens: L'Harmattan, Sakkoulas. [Details]
(2006) 'Freedom of Speech and Informational Privacy'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2006) 'Freedom of Speech and Informational Privacy' In: Notions of Liberty and the Law. Paris, Athens: L'Harmattan, Sakkoulas. [Details]

Review Essay

  Year Publication
(2020) Human Dignity, Authority and Justice.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) Human Dignity, Authority and Justice. Jurisprudence: Review Essay [Details]
(2018) • “Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights”, book edited by Kalliopi Chainoglou, Barry Collins, Michael Phillips, John Strawson.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) • “Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights”, book edited by Kalliopi Chainoglou, Barry Collins, Michael Phillips, John Strawson. Journal of Comparative Law: Review Essay [Details]

Reviews

  Year Publication
(2020) Constitutional Amendment, Unamendability and the Democratic Paradox.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) Constitutional Amendment, Unamendability and the Democratic Paradox. American Journal of Comparative Law: Reviews [Details]
(2017) Equality versus fraternity? Rethinking France and its Minorities by Jeremy Gilbert and David Keane.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Equality versus fraternity? Rethinking France and its Minorities by Jeremy Gilbert and David Keane. International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog: Reviews [Details]
(2017) Rights-Based Constitutional Review - Constitutional Courts in a Changing Landscape (2016).
Ioanna Tourkochoiti (2017) Rights-Based Constitutional Review - Constitutional Courts in a Changing Landscape (2016). The Irish Jurist: Reviews [Details]

Electronic Journal

  Year Publication
(2018) • Memory Politics and Academic Freedom: Some Recent Controversies in Greece.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) • Memory Politics and Academic Freedom: Some Recent Controversies in Greece. Verfassungsblog.de, ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL: Electronic Journal [Details]
(2017) Protection with Hesitation: on the recent CJEU Decisions on Religious Headscarves at Work.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Protection with Hesitation: on the recent CJEU Decisions on Religious Headscarves at Work. Germany: Electronic Journal [Details]
(2016) Who Speaks in the Name of the People?.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Who Speaks in the Name of the People?. Germany: Electronic Journal [Details]
(2015) The Gay Cake Case from Northern Ireland: Possibly Instructive for the U.S.?.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2015) The Gay Cake Case from Northern Ireland: Possibly Instructive for the U.S.?. U.S.A: Electronic Journal [Details]
(2015) The New Regulation Against Hate Speech in Greece: Strengths and Weaknesses.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2015) The New Regulation Against Hate Speech in Greece: Strengths and Weaknesses. U.S.A: Electronic Journal [Details]
(2014) The Burka Ban before the European Court of Human Rights: A comment on S.A.S. v. France.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) The Burka Ban before the European Court of Human Rights: A comment on S.A.S. v. France. U.S.A: Electronic Journal [Details]
(2013) Political Party Bans and the Case of Golden Dawn's Right Wing Extremism in Greece.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2013) Political Party Bans and the Case of Golden Dawn's Right Wing Extremism in Greece. Germany: Electronic Journal [Details]

Published Reports

  Year Publication
(2005) Annual Report, The Greek Ombudsman, Human Rights Division.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2005) Annual Report, The Greek Ombudsman, Human Rights Division. The Greek Ombudsman, Athens, Greece. [Details]
(2005) Discrimination on the grounds of disability according to the EU Directive 2000/78/EC.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2005) Discrimination on the grounds of disability according to the EU Directive 2000/78/EC. The Greek Ombudsman, Athens, Greece. [Details]
(2005) Discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief according to the EU Directive 2000/78/EC.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2005) Discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief according to the EU Directive 2000/78/EC. The Greek Ombudsman, Athens, Greece. [Details]
(2004) Annual Report, The Greek Ombudsman, Human Rights Division.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2004) Annual Report, The Greek Ombudsman, Human Rights Division. The Greek Ombudsman, Athens, Greece. [Details]

Editorial

  Year Publication
(2020) Human dignity, authority and justice.
Tourkochoriti, I (2020) Human dignity, authority and justice. ABINGDON: Editorial [DOI] [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
(1996) 'Postmodernism and the Law'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (1996) 'Postmodernism and the Law' Athens Law Review, IA :44-58. [Details]

Invited Lectures

  Year Publication
(2018) Freedom of Expression: An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Freedom of Expression: An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought. LSE Law Department: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2018) The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Headscarves in the Workplace: A Commentary.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Headscarves in the Workplace: A Commentary. Center for European Studies Harvard University: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2017) Secularism in France and in the USA.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Secularism in France and in the USA. Harvard Kennedy School of Government: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2017) Comparing the US Disparate Impact Doctrine to the EU Indirect Discrimination Doctrine in the EU.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Comparing the US Disparate Impact Doctrine to the EU Indirect Discrimination Doctrine in the EU. Wroclaw University, Poland: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2017) Charting the Migration of Legal Ideas from the US to the EU: Indirect Discrimination as a Case Study.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Charting the Migration of Legal Ideas from the US to the EU: Indirect Discrimination as a Case Study. City University of London School of Law: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2017) Human Dignity: A Legal Value?.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Human Dignity: A Legal Value?. London School of Economics, UK: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2017) Human Dignity: A Legal Value?.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Human Dignity: A Legal Value?. Wroclaw Poland: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2016) Anti System Parties in Europe and the US.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Anti System Parties in Europe and the US. Trento, Italy: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2016) Disparate Impact in the US and Indirect Discrimination in the EU: A comparative analysis.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Disparate Impact in the US and Indirect Discrimination in the EU: A comparative analysis. Milan, Italy: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2016) Human Dignity: A Legal Value?.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Human Dignity: A Legal Value?. Trinity College Dublin School of Law: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2015) The Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Questioning Narratives and Interpretations.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2015) The Charlie Hebdo Attacks: Questioning Narratives and Interpretations. Ireland: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2014) The transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) The transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance. Ottawa, Canada: Invited Lectures [Details]
(2014) Should Hate Speech be Protected?.
Ioan (2014) Should Hate Speech be Protected?. University of South Carolina: Invited Lectures [Details]

Workshops

  Year Publication
(2018) Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory?.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory?. University of Manchester: Workshops [Details]
(2018) Should the law Regulate Historical Memory?.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Should the law Regulate Historical Memory?. Harvard University, USA: Workshops [Details]
(2018) Public and Private Law Responses to Religious Diversity.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Public and Private Law Responses to Religious Diversity. Fukuoka Japan: Workshops [Details]
(2018) Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory? An analysis of cases from Rwanda and Europe.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory? An analysis of cases from Rwanda and Europe. Queen Mary University London: Workshops [Details]
(2018) Freedom of Speech: An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Freedom of Speech: An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought. Princeton University US: Workshops [Details]

Invited Seminars

  Year Publication
(2020) Freedom of Speech: Comparing Constitutionalism in France and the US.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) Freedom of Speech: Comparing Constitutionalism in France and the US. Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group: Invited Seminars [Details]
(2020) Comparing Constitutionalism in France and the USA.
Ioanna TOURKOCHORITI (2020) Comparing Constitutionalism in France and the USA. Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law: Invited Seminars [Details]
(2020) Historical Imaginaries on the Role of the Government in France and the US.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) Historical Imaginaries on the Role of the Government in France and the US. LSE Law Department: Invited Seminars [Details]
(2020) Comparative Rights Jurisprudence Methodologies.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) Comparative Rights Jurisprudence Methodologies. LSE Law Department: Invited Seminars [Details]
(2019) Religious Neutrality in the Workplace: A critique of the CJEU.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) Religious Neutrality in the Workplace: A critique of the CJEU. University of York School of Law UK: Invited Seminars [Details]

Invited Review Articles

  Year Publication
(2018) Comment on Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation”, by Grégoire Webber, Paul Yowell, Richard Ekins, Maris Köpke, Bradley W. Miller, Francisco J. Urbina, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Comment on Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation”, by Grégoire Webber, Paul Yowell, Richard Ekins, Maris Köpke, Bradley W. Miller, Francisco J. Urbina, Cambridge University Press, 2018. London School of Economics and Political Science: Invited Review Articles [Details]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(2020) Groups and the Constitution
Ioanna TOURKOCHORITI (2020) How Far should the state go to counter prejudice? Groups and the Constitution Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, [Details]
(2020) Positive State Obligations Concerning Fundamental Rights and Changing Hearts and Minds
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2020) How Far Should States go to Counter Prejudice? Positive State Obligations Concerning Fundamental Rights and Changing Hearts and Minds [Details]
(2019) Freedom of Expression as an Equal Right
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) The Ashers Bakery case and the Compelled Speech Argument Freedom of Expression as an Equal Right University Lyon III, [Details]
(2019) American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) Comment on Richard Albert's book 'Constitutional Amendment' . In: ASCL eds. American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting [Details]
(2019) American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) Religious Neutrality in the Workplace: A critique of the CJEU from a Comparative Perspective . In: ASCL eds. American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting University of Missouri, [Details]
(2019) Dignity, Democracy, Diversity
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) Human Dignity: A Legal Value? . In: IVR World Congrss 2019 eds. Dignity, Democracy, Diversity University of Lucerne Switzerland, , 07-JUL-19 - 12-JUL-19 [Details]
(2019) Public Law in Times of Change
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory? . In: International Society of Public Law eds. Public Law in Times of Change Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, [Details]
(2019) Public Law in Times of Change
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) The same sex marriage cases and the compelled speech argument . In: International Society of Public Law eds. Public Law in Times of Change Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, , 01-JUL-19 - 03-JUL-19 [Details]
(2019) American Society of Comparative Law YCC 8th Annual Global Conference
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2019) Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory? American Society of Comparative Law YCC 8th Annual Global Conference McGill University School of Law, [Details]
(2018) Law and Society Annual Meeting
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Religious Headscarves at Work: What can the CJEU learn from the US? Law and Society Annual Meeting Toronto, Canada, [Details]
(2018) American Society of Comparative Law YCC Global Conference
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Religious Headscarves at Work: What can the CJEU learn from the US American Society of Comparative Law YCC Global Conference [Details]
(2018) Book Colloquium: Law and Memory, Towards Legal Governance of History
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) Is There a Difference Between Punitive and Non-Punitive Laws Against Challenging Historical Facts? Book Colloquium: Law and Memory, Towards Legal Governance of History University of Oxford UK, [Details]
(2017) Law, Rationality and the Market, IVR UK Annual Meeting 2017
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Locke, Smith, Rousseau and the Foundations of Constitutionalism in France and in the USA Law, Rationality and the Market, IVR UK Annual Meeting 2017 University of Sheffield, UK, , 17-NOV-17 - 18-NOV-17 [Details]
(2017) ICON - S Britain and Ireland Chapter Launch Conference
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) How can a comparative approach to freedom of religion in the workplace be instructive for the CJEU? ICON - S Britain and Ireland Chapter Launch Conference Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, [Details]
(2017) Courts, Power, Public Law
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Apology of the Law or Distrust towards the Law? Comparing US and French Constitutionalism . In: ICON-S The International Society of Public Law eds. Courts, Power, Public Law University of Copenhagen, , 04-JUL-17 - 07-JUL-17 [Details]
(2016) Law and Social Sustainability
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the Migration of the US Disparate Impact Doctrine in EU Law . In: IVR UK eds. Law and Social Sustainability University of Leeds School of Law, Center for Law and Social Justice, , 29-OCT-16 - 30-OCT-16 [Details]
(2016) University of Edinburgh Legal Theory Seminar Series
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Human Dignity, a legal value? University of Edinburgh Legal Theory Seminar Series [Details]
(2016) Borders, Otherness & Public Law, ICON-S Conference
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Dignity as Unconditional Respect Borders, Otherness & Public Law, ICON-S Conference Humboldt University Berlin, , 17-JUN-16 - 19-JUN-16 [Details]
(2016) Legislating and Judging History: European Memory Laws in Comparative Perspective
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Contestation of Historical Fact and National Truths: An Analysis of Cases from France and Greece . In: Uladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Gliszczynska - Grabias eds. Legislating and Judging History: European Memory Laws in Comparative Perspective University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, , 02-JUN-16 - 03-JUN-16 [Details]
(2016) (Dis)locating Comparative Law
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) Human Dignity: Transatlantic disagreement in its Definition and Protection . In: Irish Society of Comparative Law eds. (Dis)locating Comparative Law NUI Galway, , 23-MAY-16 - 24-MAY-16 [Details]
(2015) Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2015
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2015) Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the Migration of the US Disparate Impact Doctrine in EU Law Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2015 [Details]
(2015) EU Anti-discrimination Law: 15 years after A European Constitutionalism workshop
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2015) Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the Migration of the U.S. Disparate Impact Doctrine in EU law EU Anti-discrimination Law: 15 years after A European Constitutionalism workshop Vrije University Amsterdam, [Details]
(2015) Public Law in an Uncertain World, International Society of Public Law
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2015) France and the Quest for Universalism Public Law in an Uncertain World, International Society of Public Law New York University, , 01-JUL-15 - 03-JUL-15 [Details]
(2014) Juris Talks, Carleton University Canada
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) The transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance Juris Talks, Carleton University Canada [Details]
(2014) Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group 3rd Annual Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) Disparate Impact and Indirect Discrimination: Assessing Responses to Systemic Discrimination in the U.S. and the E.U Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group 3rd Annual Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles [Details]
(2014) EU Law Stories, Washington College of Law, American University Washington
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the adoption of the U.S. Disparate Impact Doctrine by the ECJ EU Law Stories, Washington College of Law, American University Washington [Details]
(2014) Constitutionalism across Borders in the Struggle against Terrorism, International Association of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2014) The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation Constitutionalism across Borders in the Struggle against Terrorism, International Association of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School [Details]
(2013) Annual Meeting of American Society of Comparative Law, Hot Topics Panel, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2013) The Snowden Revelations, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the U.S.-E.U. divide in Data privacy protection Annual Meeting of American Society of Comparative Law, Hot Topics Panel, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law [Details]
(2013) Annual Meeting Law and Society Association, Boston
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2013) Should Hate Speech Be Protected? The Divide between Europe (France) - USA Annual Meeting Law and Society Association, Boston [Details]
(2013) Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, Yale Law School
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2013) Should Hate Speech Be Protected? Group Defamation, Party Bans, Holocaust Denial and the Divide Between Europe (France) - U.S.A Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, Yale Law School [Details]
(2013) Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group 2nd Annual Conference, Berkeley Law School, Boalt Hall
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2013) Revisiting Hosanna-Tabor: The Road not Taken Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group 2nd Annual Conference, Berkeley Law School, Boalt Hall [Details]
(2012) Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group 1st Annual Conference, Sciences Po Law School, Paris
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2012) The Burka Ban: Divergent Approaches to Freedom of Religion in France and in the U.S.A Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group 1st Annual Conference, Sciences Po Law School, Paris [Details]
(2011) 16th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2011) The Headscarf Debates in Europe and the U.S.A 16th Annual Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University [Details]
(2010) Social Studies Faculty Colloquium, Harvard University
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2010) Reality Shows, Paternalism and Human Dignity Social Studies Faculty Colloquium, Harvard University [Details]
(2007) Seminar of society for Research in Legal Philosophy and Legal History
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2007) Freedom of Speech and Informational Privacy Seminar of society for Research in Legal Philosophy and Legal History [Details]
(2008) Seminar of Society for Research in Legal Philosophy and Legal History
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2008) Is abuse of the right to harm to self conceivable? Seminar of Society for Research in Legal Philosophy and Legal History [Details]

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
American Society of Comparative Law Younger Comparativists Committee, Scholarship Advisory Group /
Berkeley Law School, Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group Member /
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy Member /
American Philosophical Society Member /
Law and Society Association Member /
The International Society of Public Law Member /

Teaching Interests

Jurisprudence
Applied Legal Theory
Legal & Business Ethics
Advanced Comparative Law (LLM)
Global Issues in Contemporary Labour Law (LLM, co-teaching)