Gracienne Lauwers (prof. dr., Jean Monnet, grantholder)

Role in the project: grantholder of the project
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Faculty of Law & Teacher Education Institute)

Alongside positions at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Trento University, Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University, University of the Free State, Gracienne Lauwers provides advice to ngo’s, governmental agencies and individuals on issues in her field of expertise.
She holds the Jean Monnet for Teacher Training at the VUB Faculty of Law.
She is co-founder of the European Education and Law Alliances foundation.

Education
• Ph.D. Law (Netherlands)
• Lic. Iur. (Belgium)
• Lic. Arts. (Belgium)

Areas of Specialty
• European law
• Public international law
• Human rights
• Disability law
• Education law
• Comparative education policy (European Union)
• International education policy (countries outside the EU)
• Global education studies (diverse regions from a worldwide perspective)
• Inclusive education
• Teaching law to non-lawyer

Selected Award
• recipient of the 2012 “Best Professor” award

Publications
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0078-5568

YouTube channel ‘EduLAw’
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZXUc4iZZ63S1ityarIm_Tg/videos

Researchgate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gracienne-Lauwers

Principal investigator (PI) of projects funded by EU grants
https://edulaweu.eu