eduardo javier ruiz vieytez

Professor of Law at University of Deusto (Bilbao), where he has acted as vicerector, dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, and director of the Human Rights Institute. He has been legal adviser of the Basque Ombudsman and the president of an NGO working in the promotion of immigrants rights in the Basque Country. He has also been a member of the Spanish Council for Integration of Migrants and the Scientific Committee of Religious Pluralism. He has participated in several missions of the Council of Europe concerning minorities in countries of Central and Eastern Europe. His fields of research are integration policies, national conflicts, minority rights and the relation between human rights and religious, linguistic and cultural diversity. Among other responsibilities, Dr. Ruiz Vieytez has been a member of the board of directors of the IMISCOE network and of the board of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati, Basque Country).