International Distinguished Chair in Law

The Law Faculty of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) has nominated Professor Maleiha Malik as a Distinguished Professor of Law. Professor Malik will be the Suzanne Tassier Chair 2013-2014.

The appointment was recommended by the ULB Law Faculty’s peer review panel in recognition of Professor Malik's work on comparative discrimination law that has been developed in her book Discrimination Law: Theory and Context as well as a series of scholarly articles including her work on intersectional equality titled ‘Complex Equality’ that was published in Droit et Societe, Revue Internationale de Theorie du Droit et de Sociologie Juridique.

Maleiha Malik’s theme for her tenure at ULB will be ‘Gender and Human Rights’. She will present a public lecture titled ‘Why Gender Matters in Human Rights Law’ and specialist seminars to undergraduates and postgraduates titled ‘Gender at the Heart of Multiple Discrimination’ as well as a specialist PhD master class on ‘Feminist Theory and Cultural Pluralism’.

The appointment of Maleiha Malik as Distinguished Suzanne Tassier Chair was confirmed at an official ceremony in Brussels on 12 December by Professor Alain Delchambre, President of the ULB-Université libre de Bruxelles and by Professor Jean Jacqmain, Academic Secretary of the Faculté Droit & Criminologie - ULB.

About the Suzanne Tassier Chair

Suzanne Tassier was the first woman at the ULB to obtain the certificate allowing teaching activities in higher education (Agrégation de l’Enseignement Superieur). She became a professor of modern history at the ULB in 1945. The Suzanne Tassier Chair was created in 1961 in order to invite external distinguished professors to teach at the ULB about the “working conditions of women” or to help the development of research on gender studies.

Professor Malik is Professor of Law in The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.