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Dr Ioanna Tourkochoriti

LLB., LLM., MA., PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer Above The Bar
School of Law
NUI Galway

E: IOANNA.TOURKOCHORITI@nuigalway.ie
 
researcher

Biography

Ioanna Tourkochoriti is a legal scholar working in the field of jurisprudence, legal and political theory on issues of human rights and constitutional law from a comparative perspective.  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. During the Academic year 2017-2018 she is the Academic Director of the LLM in Comparative Law at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy at NUI Galway.

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. 

She received her PhD (in Law) from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Paris, France. Her dissertation 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.

She is the author of the book "The Revolutionary Roots of Free Speech: The Philosophical Foundations of the Divide between France and the USA" (under review). The book 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 presents the philosophical foundations of this role in the relevant debates. In this book she 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. She is also the author of scholarly publications 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 8,000 times: http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol20/iss3/4/. 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 has lectured 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 and she received several Teaching Excellence Awards. 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 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. Among other academic activities, she is a Member of the Board of the Younger Comparativists Committee of the American Society of Comparative Law, a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law and a member of the Social Sciences Outreach Group of the American Society of Comparative Law.

For publications and works in progress see also: 
 
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Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(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
(2018) 'Beyond Legal Positivism in Transnational Law'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2018) '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]

Electronic Journal

  Year Publication
(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]
(2017) Article Review: Ioanna Tourkochoriti on Jeremie Gilbert and David Keane’s “Equality versus fraternity? Rethinking France and its Minorities”.
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Article Review: Ioanna Tourkochoriti on Jeremie Gilbert and David Keane’s “Equality versus fraternity? Rethinking France and its Minorities”. 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]

Conference Publications

  Year Publication
(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]
(2017) Diversity and Inclusion
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2017) Secularism in France and in the USA Diversity and Inclusion John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, [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]

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]

Conference Contributions

  Year Publication
(2016) Constitutional Silence,
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (2016) The Constitution and the Emotions, Comment on Anna Sledinska Simon's paper Constitution as a Marriage Contract: Towards a Theory of Implied Constitutional Terms. [Invited Oral Presentation], Constitutional Silence, Trinity College Dublin School of Law , 31-AUG-16 - 01-SEP-16. [Details]

Other Journals

  Year Publication
(2017) 'Review of 'Rights-Based Constitutional Review - Constitutional Courts in a Changing Landscape' John Bell and Marie-Luce Paris (eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2016'
Ioanna Tourkochoiti (2017) 'Review of 'Rights-Based Constitutional Review - Constitutional Courts in a Changing Landscape' John Bell and Marie-Luce Paris (eds), Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2016' The Irish Jurist, . [Details]
(1996) 'Postmodernism and the Law'
Ioanna Tourkochoriti (1996) 'Postmodernism and the Law' Athens Law Review, IA :44-58. [Details]

Invited Lectures

  Year Publication
(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]

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
Comparative Law
Legal & Business Ethics