Dr. Janneke Gerards

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Janneke Gerards is a professor at Utrecht University, specializing in European Fundamental Rights Law. Her research emphasizes the interrelation between the European Convention on Human Rights, EU law, and national law. Noteworthy themes in her work include the argumentative strategies of supranational courts and the future effectiveness of the European Court of Human Rights. Gerards has published extensively on principles of fundamental rights law and has edited key handbooks, with her most recent contributions including the handbook on General Principles of the European Convention on Human Rights published by Cambridge University Press. She is actively involved in research projects focusing on the impact of new technologies such as AI and algorithms on fundamental rights and non-discrimination, collaborating with various researchers and institutions. Alongside her academic duties, she has held significant positions in several advisory and editorial boards, contributing to the fields of human rights and constitutional law. Her teaching addresses fundamental rights, legal argumentation, and the intersection of technology and public values, and she co-developed a MOOC on human rights that reached over 50,000 participants.

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