Esther Janssen studied French language and literature and Law at the University of Amsterdam, where she obtained her Law degree (L.L.M) in 2007. During her studies she specialized in Intellectual Property Law, Media and Information Law and Freedom of Speech. She wrote her thesis on freedom of speech in Literature, an analysis of the jurisprudence of the ECHR.

Previously Esther worked as a registrar at the District Court of Amsterdam and as a lawyer for NVJ, the Dutch Association of Journalists and for Van Kaam Advocaten, a Dutch Law firm specialized in Intellectual Property Law and Media Law. She participated in the research project ‘Selected legal aspects of User Created Content’ of IViR for the European Commission.

Currently Esther is working at IViR on her Ph.D. thesis on the relation between freedom of speech and freedom of thought, conscience and religion: resolution of conflicting fundamental rights through criminal and private law and the role of interest groups in Europe. 

, C.J. Angelopoulos, J.V.J. van Hoboken, E. Swart, et al.) User-Created-Content: Supporting a participative Information Society, Final Report, Study carried out for the European Commission by IDATE, TNO and IViR, 2008.

28.10.2009

Limits to expression on religion in France, Agama & Religiusitas di Eropa, Journal of European Studies, 2009-1, p. 22-45. Produced in cooperation between the University of Indonesia and the Delegation of the European Commission.

This article examines the limits to expression on religion in France. It places the relevant provisions in French law and national case law concerning expression on religion within the context of the strict separation of the state and the church in France, known as la laïcité. Subsequently, it analyzes whether French case law complies with the relevant case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

09.04.2009

Updated 28.10.2009