Raoul Rombouts
Raoul Rombouts (he/him) is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Law, Families and Diversity and a member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) at Ghent University. Combining sociolegal and doctrinal legal methods, his doctoral research seeks to clarify the position of bystanders to instances of employment discrimination vis-á-vis Belgian and EU law. To this end, he scrutinizes their role in cases through equality bodies. He conducts his research under the supervision of Professor Pieter Cannoot and Dr. Cathérine Van de Graaf.
Furthermore, he has published on the right to protest in the context of pro-Palestine student encampments, and on the application of headscarf bans in Belgian secondary schools. He is also a board member of the VSR (Dutch-Flemish association for sociolegal research). Finally, Raoul has a heart for teaching.
Keywords:
Discrimination Law, Equality Law, Bystanders, Sociolegal Studies, Human Rights Law