The organizers of this conference have been supported and assisted in arranging this conference by a Conference Council. The Council consists of an extremely distinguished group of international academics and lawyers from all over the world who have served on a voluntary basis. Some members of the Council have also very generously agreed to participate as speakers or moderators at our sessions. We wish to acknowledge and thank all members of the Council for their interest in and encouragement offered to this important conference, and for their invaluable assistance throughout.
President of the Conference Council: (please note: link with bios) Douglas Elliott, Past President of ILGLaw, Partner in Roy Elliott O’Connor LLP, Toronto, Canada, President of the Conference Council
Members of Conference Council (in alphabetical order):
Adam Bodnar, Associate Professor, Warsaw University, Human Rights Chair, head of the Legal Division at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, Poland
David B. Cruz, Professor of Law, USC School of Law & President, ILGLaw, United States
Tamas Dombos, Researcher at the Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Budapest
Vasja Grabner, Artist, Slovenia
Stefano Fabeni, Director, LGBTI Initiative of Global Rights, ILGLaw Director of Information and Research, United States
Helmut Graupner, Co-ordinator, European Commission on Sexual Orientation Law (ECSOL), Director ILGLaw Europe, Austria
Håkan Hydén, Professor in Sociology of Law (Chair) and Associate Professor in Civil Law, Holder of the Samuel Pufendorf Professorship, Lund University, Sweden
Jovan Kojičić, Assistant Professor in European Law (FAES), President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Alumni Club Montenegro, guest researcher at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and post-doc at Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden, Conference Chair
Markus Kotzur, Professor of European Law, Public International Law and Public Law (Chair), Director of the Institute of Public International Law, European Law and Comparative Public Law, University of Leipzig, Germany
Robert Leckey, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Darren Rosenblum, Associate Professor of Law, Pace Law School, New York, United States
Brad Sears, Executive Director, The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, United States
Evan Wolfson, Executive Director, Freedom to Marry, United States
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