Neus Torbisco-Casals

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Neus Torbisco-Casals is professor of International law at the Geneva Graduate Institute and is researcher at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy. She is also associate professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her main areas of research are human rights, cultural diversity and identity claims, as well as right of minorities and indigenous people. She has also researched about anti-discrimination policies, gender and race equality. More recently, she has carried out studies on the role of trust in the construction of supranational institutions and on the legitimacy of self-determination in democratic contexts, with special attention to the case of Catalonia. She is the author of various works like Group Rights as Human Rights: A Liberal Approach to Multiculturalism (2006), “Beyond Altruism? Globalising Democracy in the Age of Distrust” (2015) or “The legitimacy of international courts: the challenge of diversity” (2022).