Neus Torbisco Casals (Spain), Associate Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain

Neus Torbisco Casals is Associate Professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, where she teaches legal and political philosophy. She completed her first law degree at the University of Barcelona in 1993 and a doctorate in law at the University of Pompeu Fabra in 2000. Neus has held several visiting positions at Ottawa University and Queen's University, Canada, and at the Centro di Ricerca e Formazione sul Diritto Costituzionale Comparato, Università Degli Studi di Siena, Italy. She has also been stager at the European Court of Human Rights. She has published several articles and chapters, and has presented papers at conferences in Europe and South America. More recently, she has conducted research on cultural rights, immigrants integration and European citizenship for some private and public Catalan institutions like the Jaume Bofill Foundation. At NYU, she will be pursuing research on cultural diversity and models of political inclusion in supranational democracies.