Sejal Parmar (UK)
EU Fulbright Research Scholar

LL.B. (hons.), London School of Economics and Political Science, 1998; Ph.D., European University Institute Florence, 2003

Sejal Parmar is a European Union Fulbright Scholar at New York University for the 2003-2004 academic year. In July 2003, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled 'Situating the EU human rights system in an international human rights context' at the European University Institute, Florence. During her doctoral studies, she was Marie Curie Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law (Fall 2002-Spring 2003) and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School (Fall 2000). She has published on a range of human rights-related topics, including the relationship between international human rights law and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, EU anti-discrimination law and transnational dialogues in the human rights field. While at the Jean Monnet Center she will develop her work on transnational dialogues, although her principal research focus will be the EU's evolving role in international cooperation in the field of sustainable development.