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.

Latest update : January  2024