Dr Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias

Poznan Centre for Human Rights
Assistant Professor
email: a.gliszczynska@poczta.onet.pl

A recipient of the 2015-2018 Fellowship of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education for outstanding achievements in science and research, Dr Gliszczyńska-Grabias was also Bohdan Winiarski Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre of the University of Cambridge in 2014, and Graduate Fellow of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, Yale University (2010/2011).

Member of advisory bodies to the Minister of Science and Higher Education in Poland (from 2015 onward). Expert of the Council of Europe in Help in the 28 Project (“Fight against racism, xenophobia and homophobia”). In September 2015 she became a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Community of Democracies. She authored numerous expert reports for international organisations and leading NGOs.


Research areas:

  • legal aspects of counteracting anti-Semitism,
  • xenophobia and racial and religious discrimination,
  • universal system of human rights protection,
  • freedom of speech and its limits,
  • memory laws,
  • legal mechanisms of transitional justice.


Research grants:

  • Member of the research team in the project on the reception of the universal system of human rights protection in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights („Wpływ uniwersalnego standardu ochrony praw człowieka na orzecznictwo Europejskiego Trybunału Praw Człowieka. Analiza krytyczna”), NCN OPUS, 2016/21/B/HS5/02057, supervisor: Roman Wieruszewski (2017-2019);
  • Principal Investigator in the international research consortium „Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspective” (MELA) sponsored by HERA (2016-2019)