Research team

Elisenda Calvet Martínez - Principal investigator

Elisenda Calvet Martínez is an Associate Professor of International Law, Associate Vice-Dean of Research and International Relations, and co-director of the Legal Clinic for the Fight against Impunity and Human Rights at the University of Barcelona. She has worked with the Spanish Red Cross, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner. Her research focuses on transitional justice, enforced disappearances, genocide, human rights, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. She has conducted research at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC) at KU Leuven, the Carlos III University of Madrid, and the Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute at the University of Deusto.

Elisenda is part of the Ukraine Peace Settlement Project at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. She has trained Spanish judges and prosecutors on transitional justice, human rights, and enforced disappearances, and has provided strategic legal advice to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the situation of women in Afghanistan.

Research team

Our diverse research team consists of 15 dedicated members, including 9 women and 6 men. Three of our team members are full-time teaching and research staff at the Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona. The remaining members are part of the "Discrimination in Post-Conflict Constitutions" research group, representing a global perspective with individuals from Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, USA, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Turkey.

Members

Aitor Díaz, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Barcelona
Alenka Antloga, lawyer, Convener of the "Discrimination in Post-Conflict Constitutions" Research Group, International Association of Constitutional Law
Antonio Martin Porras, Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Barcelona
Carna Pistan, senior researcher and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow, Institute for Comparative Federalism, Eurac Research, Bosnia Herzegòvina
Chris Shematsi Kibancha, Centre de Recherches et d’Études sur l’État de Droit en Afrique (CREEDA), Democratic Republic of Congo.
Çiğdem Serra Uzunpinar, PhD and Lawyer, Ankara, Turkey
Denis Bikesha, Professor of Transitional Justice, University of Rwanda.
Maureen N. Eke, Central Michigan University.
Md Khalid Rahman, Strassler Center – Clark University, US.
Raluca Colojoară, Junior lecturer, Professor of Law, West University of Timişoara · Political Sciences Department of Philosophy and Communication Sciences
Regina M. Paulose, attorney based in the U.S.
Rohan Edrisinha, Visiting Professor, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Yi-Li Lee, Assistant Professor, Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Zeynep Günes, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Çukurova, Ankara, Turkey.