Academic Bio
Dr. Uladzislau Belavusau is a Senior Researcher in European Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (the Hague) - University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Previously, he served as Assistant Professor of European Law and Human Rights at the University of Amsterdam (2016) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2011–2015). Dr. Belavusau holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and an LL.M. from the Collège d'Europe (Bruges, Belgium).
His research and teaching focus on various areas of EU law, particularly constitutional and anti-discrimination law, human rights, comparative constitutionalism, and memory politics. His recent scholarship examines the transnational governance of historical memory across Europe, East Asia, and Latin America, bridging human rights, constitutionalism, citizenship, security, history, and international relations.
As Principal Investigator, Dr. Belavusau led the Dutch teams in two major international research consortia: the MEMOCRACY consortium (The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past), which was awarded a grant (2021-2024) from the Volkswagen Foundation, and the MELA consortium (Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspectives), funded by the EU research grant HERA (Humanities in the European Reserarch Area, 2016-2019). 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 has held visiting fellowships at leading international institutions, including University of California at Berkeley (Berkeley, USA), Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Heidelberg, Germany), York University (Toronto, Canada), Università degli studi di Milano-Biccoca (Italy), Tel Aviv University (Israel), University of Warsaw (Poland), and Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
He has also been extensively engaged in graduate and postgraduate teaching, guest lecturing at institutions such as 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), European Law Academy (Germany), IDC Herzliya - Reichman University (Israel), and, for several years continuously, at the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (Italy).
Dr. Belavusau is the author of the monograph Freedom of Speech: Importing European and US Constitutional Models in Transitional Democracies (Routledge, 2013), and co-editor of four books: The Politics of Memory Laws: Russia, Ukraine, and Beyond (Hart-Bloomsbury, 2025), Constitutionalism under Stress: Essays in Honour of Wojciech Sadurski (Oxford University Press, 2020), EU Anti-Discrimination Law Beyond Gender (Hart-Bloomsbury, 2018) and Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Alongside his academic work, Dr. Belavusau has provided legal advice and expert opinions to various national and international organisations, including EU institutions, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations.
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Formerly supervised PhD researchers