Office Details
Administrative Assistant: Latosha Davis, 410.837.4689
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 1006
Education
Ph.D., École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - Paris, France
L.L.M., University of Paris II - Panthéon-Assas, France
M.A., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - Paris, France
L.L.B. (4-year Law Degree), Athens Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Greece
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.
Books
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: THE REVOLUTIONARY ROOTS OF AMERICAN AND FRENCH LEGAL THOUGHT (Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022)
Edited Volumes
COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY: THE VALUE, PURPOSES AND METHODS OF HISTORICAL COMPARISON, with Mortimer Sellers (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2025)
COMPARATIVE ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, with Mortimer Sellers and Jorge Contesse (forthcoming, Edward Elgar)
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF HATE SPEECH, with Eric Heinze, Natalie Alkiviadou, Tom Herrenberg and Sejal Parmar (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2025)
Articles
“Social Media Platform Regulation in the US and the EU: Towards a Divided Internet?”, 15 N.Y.U J. INTELL. PROP. & ENT. L. (forthcoming)
“LGBTQ Wedding Party: Conscientious Objections to the Enforcement of Antidiscrimination Law” 60 TULSA L. REV. 421 (2025), Publisher SSRN
“Is Neutrality Possible? A critique of the Court of Justice of the European Union on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective”, 71 AM. J. OF COMP. L. (2023) 444-485. Publisher
“The DSA and the EU as Global Regulator of the Internet”, 24 CHIC. J.L. OF INT’L. L., (2023) 129-147 Publisher SSRN
“How Far Should the State Go to Counter Prejudice?”, ERASMUS L. REV. (2020) Publisher SSRN
“What Is the Best Way to Realize Rights?”, 39 (1) OXFORD JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES (2019) 209-228 Publisher SSRN
“Comparative Rights Jurisprudence: An Essay on Methodologies”, LAW AND METHOD (2017) SSRN
“Speech, Privacy and Dignity in France and in the U.S.A: A Comparative Analysis”, 48 LOYOLA L. A. INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 101-182 (2016) SSRN
“‘Disparate Impact’ and ‘Indirect Discrimination’: Assessing Responses to Systemic Discrimination in the U.S. and the E.U.”, EUROPEAN J. OF HUMAN RIGHTS 297-324 (3/2015) SSRN
“The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance”, 36 UNIV. PENNSYLVANIA J. INT. L. 459-524 (2014) SSRN
“Healthcare Reform in the U.S. Constitutional Equilibrium”, CHARLOTTE L. REV. 405-469 (2014) SSRN
“The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the U.S.-E.U. Divide in Data Privacy Protection”, 36 UNIV. ARK. LITTLE ROCK LAW. REV. 161-176 (2014) (invited contribution) SSRN
“Should Hate Speech be Protected? Group Defamation, Party Bans, Holocaust Denial and the Divide between Europe – U.S.A.”, 45 COLUM. HUM. RTS L. Rev., 552-622 (2014) SSRN
“Revisiting Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C.: The Road not Taken”, 49 TULSA L. REV., 47-98 (2013) SSRN
“Should Attempted Suicide be Criminalized?”, 48 CRIM. L. BUL., 1307-1325 (2012)
“The Burka Ban: Divergent Approaches to Freedom of Religion in France and in the U.S.A”., 20 WM & MARY BILL RTS JOURNAL, 791-852 (2012) Publisher SSRN
Chapters in Edited volumes
“Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory”, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF HATE SPEECH, (forthcoming 2025)
“Comparative law and philosophy of history: the case of free speech in American and French legal thought” in COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY: THE VALUE, PURPOSES AND METHODS OF HISTORICAL COMPARISON (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025) SSRN
“Employers’ Duties to Respect Employees’ Freedom of Religion in the Workplace – Recent Developments”, in Aleksandra Gliszczy?ska-Grabias and Aviad Hacohen eds., FREEDOM OF RELIGION, MINORITY RIGHTS AND THE LAW, (Routledge, 2025) 120-139.
“The Constitutional Politics of Religion”, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON THE POLITICS OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, Mark Tushnet and Dimitry Kochenov eds., (Edward Elgar, 2023) SSRN
“Religious Rights”, in THE ELGAR ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF COMPARATIVE LAW, Katherine Valke, Jaakko Husa and Jan Smits eds., (Edward Elgar, 2023)
“Bills of Rights”, in THE MAX PLANCK ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Oxford University Press, 2022)
“Privacy and Speech”, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH, Frederick Schauer and Adrienne Stone eds., (Oxford University Press, 2021)
“Beyond Legal Positivism in Transnational Law”, in LEGAL POSITIVISM UNDER PROCESSES OF GLOBALISATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM Luca Siliquini-Cinelli ed., (Springer, Law and Philosophy, 2019)
“Challenging Historical Facts and National Truths: an analysis of cases from France and Greece”, in LAW AND MEMORY: TOWARDS LEGAL GOVERNANCE OF HISTORY, Uladzislau Belavusau and Aleksandra Glyszczynska Grabias eds., (Cambridge University Press, 2017) SSRN
“Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the migration of the U.S. Disparate Impact Doctrine in EU Law”, in EU LAW STORIES, Fernanda Nicola and Bill Davies eds., (Cambridge University Press, 2017), SSRN
Review Essays
“Injustice, Memory and Faith in Human Rights”, book edited by Kalliopi Chainoglou, Barry Collins, Michael Phillips, John Strawson, Routledge 2017, Journal of Comparative Law (2018)
“Dignity, Authority, Justice”, Jurisprudence (2020)
Reviews
“Comparing Human Rights Law”, a review of Sandra Fredman’s Comparative Human Rights Law, (OUP 2019) (The Modern Law Review, 2022)
“Constitutional Amendment, Unamendability and the Democratic Paradox”, The American Journal of Comparative Law (2020)
“Rights-Based Constitutional Review - Constitutional Courts in a Changing Landscape”, book edited by John Bell and Marie-Luce Paris, Edward Elgar 2016, The Irish Jurist (2017) SSRN
“Equality versus fraternity? Rethinking France and its Minorities” by Jeremie Gilbert and David Keane, International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, February 2017
Internet publications
Memory Politics and Academic Freedom: Some Recent Controversies in Greece, Verfassungsblog.de, ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL VerfBlog, 2018/1/14
Protection with Hesitation: on the Recent CJEU Decisions on Religious Headscarves at Work, Verfassungsblog.de, ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL VerfBlog, 2017/3/21
Who Speaks in the Name of the People? A Comment on the Press Reaction to the Miller Decision Verfassungsblog.de, ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL VerfBlog 2016/11/06
The Gay Cake Case from Northern Ireland: Possibly instructive for the U.S.?, Int’l J. Const. L. Blog, June 3, 2015
The New Regulation Against Hate Speech in Greece: Strengths and Weaknesses, Reviews & Critical Commentary (CritCom), Council for European Studies, Columbia University
The Burka Ban before the European Court of Human Rights: A Comment on S.A.S. v. France, Int’l J. Const. L. Blog, July 9, 2014,:
Political Party Bans and the Case of Golden Dawn’s Right Wing Extremism in Greece, Verfassungsblog.de ON MATTERS CONSTITUTIONAL VerfBlog