U. (uladzislau) Belavusau
Professor
Faculty of Law
University of Amsterdam
Netherlands
Biography
Dr. Uladzislau Belavusau is Assistant Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). As of September 2016, he will be seconded as Senior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in the Hague. Previosly he taught European law and human rights at the law faculty of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2011-2015). He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and an LL.M. from the Collège d’Europe (Bruges, Belgium). Dr. Belavusau has held visiting fellowships at the University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, USA), Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Heidelberg, Germany),York University (Toronto, Canada), and Tel Aviv University (Israel). In addition, he has guest lectured at the Amsterdam University College, Tilburg University, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Hague Academy of International Law (the Netherlands), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), York University (Canada), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Central European University (Hungary), Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland), European Law Academy in Trier (Germany), at a summer training at the EUI and, most recently, at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (Italy). In 2016, the HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area) awarded him a three-year research grant to conduct a study within a four-nation MELA consortium ('Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspectives'). In 2015, the International Association of Labour Law Journals conferred him Marco Biagi Award for the best paper in labour law (published in Columbia Journal of European Law). Dr. Belavusau is author of a monograph “Freedom of Speech: Importing European and US Constitutional Models in Transitional Democracies” (Routledge, 2013) and co-editor of a book “Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History” (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is currently co-editing a new volume "EU Anti-Discrimination Law" (Oxford: Hart, 2018).
Research Interest
EU law (with a focus on fundamental rights, citizenship and anti-discrimination policies), human rights, comparative constitutional law, law & society.
