Isabelle Rorive

Isabelle Rorive is a full professor at the Law Faculty of the ULB (University of Brussels). Her research and courses focus on equality and non-discrimination issues as well as on the contemporary challenges that human rights are facing in a global and numerical world. Her academic work is based on comparative, European, international and interdisciplinary studies.

Isabelle Rorive holds a PhD in Law (ULB, 2000), a Master of Studies in Legal Research (University of Oxford, 1998), a Master and BA in Law (ULB, 1994 and 1991). She was a Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (PhD, 1995-1999) and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford (Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, 2001-2002).

During 10 years, Isabelle Rorive was the director (2012-2018) and the president (2018-2022) of the Centre Perelman. As the advisor of the Vice-Chancellor and the President of the ULB for the equality and diversity policy, a senior expert member of the European Equality Law Network and a founding board member of the Berkeley Centre on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law , Isabelle Rorive pursues many of her research projects in a European or international setting. With Emmanuelle Bribosia, she launched the Equality Law Clinic (ELC) in 2014 of which she is now the director.

In March 2025, she was elected to the Académie royale de Belgique as a full member of the Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques.

Latest update : June 2025