Associate Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center for International and Comparative Law
410.837.4163
John and Frances Angelos Law Center, Room 528
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
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Expertise
Human Rights
Comparative Law
Constitutional Law
Discrimination Law
Jurisprudence
Philosophy of Law
History of Political Thought
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 leading 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 co-organiser of the International Research Collaborative on “Religion and Women's Rights: Global Perspectives” and international research networks on hate speech online, 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 was formerly Lecturer above the Bar 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.
Selected Publications
Books
Freedom of Expression: An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought (Cambridge University Press, ASCL Studies in Comparative Law, 2022)
Articles
“Is Neutrality Possible? A Critique of the Court of Justice of the European Union on Headscarves in the Workplace from a Comparative Perspective,” American Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming)
“The Digital Services Act and the EU as Global Regulator of the Internet,” 24 Chi. J. Intl. L. 129-147 (2023)
“How Far Should the State Go to Counter Prejudice?,” Erasmus L. Rev. (2020)
“What Is the Best Way to Realize Rights?,” 39 (1) Oxford J. Legal Stud. 209-228 (2019)
“Comparative Rights Jurisprudence: An Essay on Methodologies,” Law And Method (2017)
“Speech, Privacy and Dignity in France and in the U.S.A: A Comparative Analysis,” 48 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 101-182 (2016)
“‘Disparate Impact’ and ‘Indirect Discrimination’: Assessing Responses to Systemic Discrimination in the U.S. and the E.U.,” Eur. J. Hum. Rts 297-324 (3/2015)
“The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance,” 36 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 459-524 (2014)
“Healthcare Reform in the U.S. Constitutional Equilibrium”, Charlotte L. Rev. 405-469 (2014)
“The Snowden Revelations, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the U.S.-E.U. Divide in Data Privacy Protection”, 36 U. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 161-176 (2014)
“Should Hate Speech be Protected? Group Defamation, Party Bans, Holocaust Denial and the Divide between Europe – U.S.A.”, 45 Col. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 552-622 (2014)
“Revisiting Hosanna-Tabor v. E.E.O.C.: The Road Not Taken,” 49 Tulsa L. Rev. 47-98 (2013)
“Should Attempted Suicide be Criminalized?,” 48 Criminal Law Bulletin, 1307-1325 (West/Thomson, 2012)
“The Burka Ban: Divergent Approaches to Freedom of Religion in France and in the U.S.A”., 20 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 791-852 (2012)
Chapters in edited volumes
“The Constitutional Politics of Religion,” in Mark Tushnet and Dimitry Kochenov eds., Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law (Edward Elgar, 2023)
“Religious Rights,” in Katherine Valke, Jaakko Husa and Jan Smits eds., The Elgar Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law (2023)
“Bills of Rights,” The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press, 2022)
“Privacy and Speech,” in Frederick Schauer and Adrienne Stone eds. The Oxford Handbook on Freedom of Speech, (Oxford University Press, 2021)
“Beyond Legal Positivism in Transnational Law,” in Luca Siliquini-Cinelli ed. Legal Positivism Under Processes of Globalisation and Transnationalism (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)
“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 ed., (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Selected Presentations
“The Digital Services Act and the EU as Global Regulator of the Internet”, Chicago Journal of International Law Workshop on Free Speech and International Law, Chicago Law School, February 24th 2023
“The Digital Services Act and the EU as the global Regulator of the Internet”, American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal 17th September 2022
Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought, Queen Mary University of London, January 28th 2022
"Freedom of Expression: The Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought, American Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting October 21st 2021
“Comparing Constitutionalism in France and the US,” University of Maryland School of Law, Comparative Constitutional Law Colloquium, March 3rd 2020
“Freedom of expression: Comparing Constitutionalism in France and the US,” Oxford Jurisprudence Discussion Group, February 10th 2020
“Comparative Law Methodologies” LSE PhD students seminar, January 15th 2020
“Freedom of Expression: An Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought”, LSE Law Department, December 12th 2018
“Should the Law Regulate Historical Memory?”, Conference “Circulating Across Europe? Transgressive Narratives about the Past”, Harvard University, August 28th-29th 2018
“The Court of Justice of the European Union on Headscarves in the Workplace: A Commentary”, Centre for European Studies, Harvard University, April 23rd 2018
“Freedom of Speech: A Philosophical Inquiry into the Revolutionary Roots of American and French Legal Thought”, American Society of Comparative Law Works-in-Progress Workshop, Princeton University, February 23rd-24th 2018
“Challenging Historical Facts and National Truths”, Book Colloquium on Law and Memory, Oxford University, January 17th 2018
“Charting the Migration of Legal Ideas from the Us to the EU: Indirect Discrimination as a Case Study”, City University London School of Law, United Kingdom, May 31st 2017
“Secularism in France and in the USA”, Conference on Diversity and Inclusion, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University 4th February 2016
“Human Dignity: A Legal Value?”, Edinburgh Legal Theory Seminar Series 2016-2017, October 6th, 2016
“The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation: In Search for Legal Protection against Surveillance”, Carleton University, Canada, October 23rd 2014
“Jenkins v. Kingsgate and the adoption of the U.S. Disparate Impact Doctrine by the ECJ”, EU Law Stories Conference, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, March 13th, 2014
“The Transatlantic Flow of Data and the National Security Exception in the European Data Privacy Regulation”, Research Group on Constitutional Responses to Terrorism, International Association of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School, March 6th-7th, 2014
“The Snowden revelations, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the U.S. – E.U. Divide in Data Privacy Protection ”, American Society of Comparative Law, Annual Meeting, Hot Topics Panel, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law, October 10th -12th, 2013
“Hate Speech in the U.S. and Europe”, Stetson University College of Law, Florida, October 9th 2013
“Should Hate Speech Be Protected? Group Defamation, Party Bans, Holocaust Denial and The Divide between Europe and the U.S.”, Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, Yale Law School, May 4th-5th 2013
“Revisiting Hosanna-Tabor: The Road not Taken”, Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti Discrimination Law Study Group 2nd Annual Conference, Berkeley Law School, April 3rd-5th, 2013
“The Burka Ban: Divergent Approaches to Freedom of Religion in France and in the U.S.A.” Berkeley Law School Comparative Anti-Discrimination Law Study Group Annual Conference, Sciences-Po Law School, Paris, May 3rd-4th, 2012