Biography
Jeroen Temperman is professor of international law at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has been the editor-in-chief of Religion & Human Rights: An International Journal since 2005. He served as a member of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief from 2016-2022. Jeroen Temperman has a dual educational background in law and social science: he holds an LL.M (dist.) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands; an E.MA (hons.) from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, Italy; and an MA (cum laude) in Humanist Studies from the University for Humanist Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands; he also holds undergraduate degrees in Law and Humanist Studies from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University for Humanist Studies respectively. He completed his doctoral degree at the Irish Centre for Human Rights (National University of Ireland, Galway).
In 2014 Jeroen Temperman was awarded a Fulbright award, facilitating a position as visiting scholar at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C. He has also been guest professor at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), the School of Law of the University of Siena (Italy) and at the Center for Religious Studies (ISR) at Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK), Trento (Italy). Other awards and prizes include a Research Excellence Initiative grant, two EUR Fellowships, and a H2020 grant.
He has given 150+ conference presentations, summer schools and lawyer/teacher trainings in over 30 countries.
He has 100+ publications, including 10 books. Recent articles have appeared in: Human Rights Law Review; Oxford Journal for Law and Religion; Review of Faith & International Affairs; and European Yearbook on Human Rights. Recent monographs and coedited volumes include:
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights (Oxford University Press)
- The European Court of Human Rights and the Freedom of Religion or Belief (Brill)
- Religious Hatred and International Law (Cambridge University Press)
- Religious Speech, Hatred and LGBT Rights (Brill)
- Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression (Cambridge University Press)
Erasmus School of Law
- temperman@law.eur.nl
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Work
- Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Artificial Intelligence and Religious Freedom - [link]
- Alberto Quintavalla & Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Conclusion - doi: 10.1093/law/9780192882486.001.0001 - [link]
- Alberto Quintavalla & Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Introduction - doi: 10.1093/law/9780192882486.001.0001
- Alberto Quintavalla & Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights - [link]
- Kostina Prifti, Alberto Quintavalla & Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Understanding and Governing Common Risks and Benefits
- Jan Essink, Alberto Quintavalla & Jeroen Temperman (2023) - The Indivisibility of Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis - Human Rights Law Review, 23 (3) - doi: 10.1093/hrlr/ngad013
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Half-hearted Support to Pluralist Curriculum Building: The Case of Religion - Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 11 (1), 91-108 - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Standar Hukum Internasional Mengenai Ujaran Ekstrem Terkait Agama - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Homofobe en Transfobe Haatuitingen onder het IVBPR en EVRM:: Ontwikkelingen en Reflecties - Tijdschrift voor Religie, Recht en Beleid, 13 (1), 22-33 - doi: 10.5553/TvRRB/187977842022013001003
- Jeroen Temperman & Alberto Quintavalla (2022) - Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights: : Friend or Foe? - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (29 June 2023) - Study Data from Erasmus University Update Understanding of Human Rights Law (The Indivisibility of Human Rights: an Empirical Analysis)
- Jeroen Temperman (15 November 2021) - Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights: Friend or Foe?
- JD (Jeroen) Temperman (23 November 2020) - “Het discriminatieverbod wint aan invloed”, interview contribution to newspaper article in relation to religious schools discriminatory practices vis-à-vis homosexuals, Trouw, article by Wendelmoet Boersema, 23 november 2020
- JD (Jeroen) Temperman (14 March 2017) - “Baas mag hoofddoek op werkvloer verbieden: ‘Dit staat haaks op onze pluralistische maatschappij’,” interview contribution to newspaper article in relation to the Achbita and Bougnaoui judgements of the Court of Justice of the EU (Cases C-157/15 and C-188/15), in Volkskrant, article by Jonathan Witteman, 14 March 2017
- JD (Jeroen) Temperman (17 February 2015) - “Response to the Charlie Hebdo tragedy”, The Immanent Frame (February 2015).
- Jeroen Temperman (2025) - “Education and Religion,” guest lecture at the International Joint PhD Programme Religion, Culture and Public Life, 16 April 2025, University of Padova, Padova, Italy (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2025) - "Hate Speech and Religion,” guest lecture at the International Joint PhD Programme Religion, Culture and Public Life, 16 April 2025, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2024) - Looking into the Glass Bowl: Religion, Technology and Human Rights, Keynote presentation at the 25th Anniversary of the Oslo Coalition International Conference entitled “Which Belief, Whose Freedom”, 5 November 2024, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, Norway (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2024) - Homophobic Speech under International Law, public guest lecture at the NCHR lecture series, 4 November 2024, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Oslo, Norway (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2024) - Hate & International Law, panel discussant, An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on Hate: “Reflections from the Network of Excellence Training on Hate (NETHATE) project, 22 April 2024, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2024) - Publication Strategies, panel discussant, Training for 3rd and 4th year PhD Candidates, organized by the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (NNHRR), 11 April 2024, Rotterdam, Netherlands. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional - Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Artificial Intelligence & Discrimination, Ph.D. Law & Pluralism Lecture Series at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 5 May 2023, Milano, Italy (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Pluralist Education & Non-Discrimination: The Case of Religion, Ph.D. Law & Pluralism Lecture Series at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 5 May 2023, Milano, Italy (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2023) - "Religion-State Models & Discrimination", Ph.D. Law & Pluralism Lecture Series at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 4 May 2023, Milano, Italy (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Religious Symbols & Discrimination, Ph.D. Law & Pluralism Lecture Series at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 4 May 2023, Milano, Italy (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- Jeroen Temperman (2020) - Principal Investigator, Horizon 2020 Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks grant (H2020-ITN-ETN) for the consortium entitled NETHATE (Network of Excellence of Training on HATE) and project director for project 13 Religiously-motivated speech targeting LGBT people: An International Human Rights Analysis. (EUR 265,620)
- Jeroen Temperman (2018) - EUR Fellowship
- Jeroen Temperman (2016) - Research Excellence Initiative grant (EUR)
- Jeroen Temperman (2014) - Fulbright Scholarship in the category of university scholar
- Jeroen Temperman (2010) - EUR-Fellowship (EUR 200,000)
Brill
- Start date approval
- June 2022
- End date approval
- June 2025
- Place
- LEIDEN
- Description
- Hoofdredacteur Int Journal Religion & Human Rights
