Editorial Team

The Talking Rights blog is edited and curated by a dynamic team of scholars and students. The blog is primarily based at the Institute for Human Rights at Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.

Editors-in-Chief

  • Dr Michel Rouleau-Dick, postdoctoral fellow, Umeå University (Sweden).
  • Isabell Junkkari, doctoral researcher, Institute for Human Rights, ÅAU.

Managing Editor

  • Meiraf Tesfaye, doctoral researcher, Institute for Human Rights, ÅAU.

Editorial team

  • Sana Akhter, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human Rights, ÅAU.
  • Frida Bergenwall, project assistant, Institute for Human Rights, ÅAU.
  • Angelica Conti, doctoral researcher, Institute for Human Rights, ÅAU.
  • Yulia Dergacheva, doctoral researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Turku.
  • Aikaterini Dimitrakopoulou, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Dionysia Kang, doctoral researcher, Institute for Human Rights, ÅAU.
  • Chathuprabha Kasthuriarachchige, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Chloe Kihlman, student, Master’s Degree Programme in International Human Rights Law, Lund University (Sweden).
  • Karoliina Kärkkäinen, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Cayla Miller, graduate, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Dr Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso, postdoctoral researcher, Institute for Human Rights, ÅAU.
  • John Mutiro, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Jenni Rantasalo, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Elina Sagne-Ollikainen, doctoral researcher, Institute for Human Rights, ÅAU.
  • Matiha Shueb, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Mathias Thijssen, student, Master’s­ Degree­ Pro­gramme in­­ Inter­national Law­ and­ Human­ Rights, ÅAU.
  • Dr Norbert Tóth, Associate Professor in Public International Law, Ludovika University of Public Service (Budapest, Hungary.

Reviewers are carefully selected on a case-by-case basis, with additional experts sourced from other networks or past reviewer pools as needed.