Faculty/Staff Profile Title

Areas of Expertise
Human Rights
Comparative Law
Constitutional Law
Discrimination Law
Jurisprudence
History of Political Thought
Business and Human Rights

Biography
Ioanna Tourkochoriti is a leading scholar on comparative law, jurisprudence and human rights. She has published numerous articles on comparative constitutional law, freedom of expression and anti-discrimination law with prominent journals all around the world. Her well-received book Freedom of Speech: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. She is currently leading several international research networks on legal philosophy, hate speech online, expressive freedoms and anti-discrimination law, and business and human rights.

She is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Hate Speech, the Oxford Handbook on Anti-Discrimination Law and Religion, a volume on comparative legal history for Cambridge University Press, a volume on the comparative enforcement of international law for Edward Elgar, and a volume on critiquing human rights for Edward Elgar.

Tourkochoriti formerly taught at the University of Galway School of Law. For eight years she held research and faculty appointments at Harvard University. She was a Wertheim Fellow with 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 also taught at Carleton University (Canada) and has held numerous fellowships with several institutions, including the LSE’s Law Department. She has delivered guest seminars and lectures at numerous universities all around the world. She is currently the associate director of the Center for International and Comparative Law.