Kristin Henrard is professor minority protection at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (EUR) as well as associate professor Constitutional Law. She teaches human rights, minority protection, constitutional law, and introduction to public law. She is also co-teaching (with a colleague of the philosophy department) a course in the prestigious Honours program of the EUR more particularly on Minorities, Law and Morals.
From February 2005 to May 2010 she worked on het VIDI-project which was granted by the Dutch Council for Scientific Research regarding the implications for minority protection of the Race Directive.
Henrard is the leader of the sub-program of the ESL entitled New Challenges of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Pluralism. She also participates in CIMIC, a research group on Citizenship, Migration and the City of the EUR. She is also senior non-resident researcher at the European Centre on Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany.
Her main publications pertain to the areas of human rights and minority protection. Themes she has been focusing on include educational rights, linguistic rights, the principle of equal treatment and the prohibition of (racial) discrimination, the freedom of religion and the accomodation of religious diversity, socio-economic and political participation.
