Biography
Jeroen Temperman is professor of international law and religion and head of the department of international and European Union Law at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the editor-in-chief of Religion & Human Rights. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe has appointed him as a member of the OSCE Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief. Jeroen Temperman’s 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). His dissertation was supervised by Professor Joshua Castellino and was on religion-state relationships and their impact on human rights implementation. In 2011 he was awarded a prestigious EUR-fellowship for his research project 'Advocacy of Religious Hatred under International and Domestic Law'. In 2014 Jeroen Temperman was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in the category of university scholar, facilitating a position as visiting scholar at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C. In 2016, he co-founded, together with colleagues from several Erasmus University faculties, of the Erasmus Institute for Public Knowledge (EIPK), facilitated by a Research Excellence Initiative grant.
He has 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).
Erasmus School of Law
- temperman@law.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- 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) - 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 (2022) - Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality in the Netherlands: Between Pillars, Polders and Principles - The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 20 (3), 77-88 - doi: 10.1080/15570274.2022.2111814 - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - International Law Standards on Extreme Speech about Religion
- Jeroen Temperman (2021) - Religious Speech, Hatred and LGBT Rights: An International Human Rights Analysis - doi: 10.1163/9789004458864 - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2021) - Compulsory, objective, critical, and pluralistic teaching about religions?: Incentives and disincentives under international human rights law - doi: 10.4324/9780429331039-24 - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2021) - Human Dignity, entry
- Jeroen Temperman (2021) - The Status of Religious Minorities in the European Union: Reflections on Social and Legal Changes
- Jeroen Temperman (2020) - "Crimes against God and the Church”, in Mark Hill QC, Norman Doe, R.H. Helmholz and John Witte Jr. (eds.), Christianity and Criminal Law (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020), chapter 13 - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2020) - Crimes against God and the Church - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (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 - Trouw
- Jeroen Temperman (2020) - Papageorgious v. Greece analyzed in Light of Folgerø and Others v. Norway: A Departure?, paper presented at the expert workshop entitled “Understanding Papageorgiou v. Greece”, 6 March 2020, Hellenic Foundation of European and Foreign Policy, Athens, Greece
- Jeroen Temperman (2019) - Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security: Some Reflections - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2019) - acknowledged as notable contributor to: OSCE Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security: Policy Guidance - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2019) - Blasphemy and the European Court of Human Rights: A Small Step Forward, A Giant Leap Back - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2019) - Children’s Right to Religious Instruction and to Education about Religion - Chinese Law & Religion Monitor, 11 (2), 5-13 - [link]
- Jeroen Temperman (2019) - Corporate Religious Freedom and the Rights of Others: Calibrating Human Rights in Times of Pluralist Dilemmas - [link]
- 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 (2023) - Artificial Intelligence & Discrimination, Ph.D. Law & Pluralism Lecture Series at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 5 May 2023, Milano, Italy
- 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
- 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
- Jeroen Temperman (2023) - Religious Symbols & Discrimination, Ph.D. Law & Pluralism Lecture Series at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 4 May 2023, Milano, Italy
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - The “Cogency, Seriousness, Cohesion and Importance” of Religion or Belief Manifestations: A Response to Tim Wolff, Research colloquium organized by the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence, 13 December 2022, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Religion & Human Rights: An International Journal (Journal)
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Neutrality & Corporate Religious Freedom, paper presented at ICLARS VI “Human Dignity, Law, and Religious Diversity”, international conference organized by the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, 19-21 September, Palace of Congresses, Cordoba, Spain.
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Hatred and International Human Rights Law: Key Challenges and Developments (focusing on sexual orientation and gender identity as protected grounds), lecture at the H2020 NETHATE-funded Summer School in Human Rights and Religion: Legal Standards on Hate Speech, 13-17 June 2022, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Co-convenor, together with Roja Fazaeli at TCD, of the H2020 NETHATE-funded Summer School in Human Rights and Religion: Legal Standards on Hate Speech, 13-17 June 2022, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Jeroen Temperman (2022) - Religion & Human Rights: An International Journal (Journal)
- 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
Human Rights in International Law
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RM66
Thesis Master Int. and Eur. Union Law
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RS20