Biography
Dr Uladzislau Belavusau is Senior Researcher in European Law at the T.M.C. Asser Institute (The Hague) – University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). For May 2025, Dr Belavusau is a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, working on his research of citizenship regulation in the light of memory politics. Previously, he held the position of Assistant Professor of European Law and Human Rights at the University of Amsterdam (2016) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2011–2015). Dr Belavusau holds a PhD from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and an LLM 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.
Dr Belavusau has held visiting fellowships at the 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-Bicocca (Italy), Tel Aviv University (Israel), University of Warsaw (Poland), and Escola da Magistratura do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). In addition, he has guest lectured at numerous institutions, including 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 LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome (Italy).
In recent years, Dr Belavusau led the Dutch team in the international MEMOCRACY consortium (The Challenge of Populist Memory Politics for Europe: Towards Effective Responses to Militant Legislation on the Past), which was awarded a research grant (2021–2024) from the Volkswagen Foundation. From 2016 to 2019, he served as the Principal Investigator for the Dutch team in the MELA consortium (Memory Laws in European and Comparative Perspectives), funded by the EU research grant HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area).
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, forthcoming in 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).