Researcher, PoznaY Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences; Vice President, “Open Republic” Association against Antisemitism and Xenophobia
Aleksandra Gliszczy?ska–Grabias graduated from the European Studies, Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland. She is a recipient of the Felix Posen Fellowship for doctoral candidates dealing with the issue of antisemitism of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is currently a Junior Researcher at the Pozna? Human Rights Centre, Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she is preparing her PhD on the legal mechanisms of fighting antisemitism in international human rights law. Her main fields of research are: legal ban on racial discrimination, freedom of speech vs. hate speech, universal system of human rights protection. Her previous professional experience includes, i.a., being a co-author of a Report from the monitoring of the racist, xenophobic and antisemitic contents in Polish press (prepared for the Polish Ministry of Interior) as well as co-editor of a book “Hate Speech vs. Free Speech – Legal and Social Aspects” (Wolters Kluwer Publ., Warsaw 2010).