Florence BENOîT-ROHMER
- Visiting professor, Interdepartmental European Advanced Studies (IDEAs)
Florence Benoît-Rohmer is Professor Emerita of Public Law at the University of Strasbourg and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe. She served as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 2000 to 2003 and as President of Robert Schuman University from 2003 to 2008. From 2009 to 2015, she was Secretary General of the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice, now the Global Campus of Human Rights.
She has served as a human rights expert for the Council of Europe and the European Union. She was a member of the European Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights.
Her research focuses on the protection of human rights and the rule of law in Europe, with particular emphasis on the interaction between the Council of Europe and the European Union, Europe’s foundational values, and the rights of national minorities.