Dr Eleni Polymenopoulou is Lecturer in Law at Brunel University and visiting lecturer at the University of Grenoble, France. She wrote her doctoral thesis in French at the University of Grenoble and University of Athens, on the topic the conflicts of rights and ‘clashes’ between artistic freedom and religious beliefs. Her research focuses on the intersections between culture, religion and the law, freedom of expression and questions of religious extremism, as well as on the adjudication of social and cultural rights. Alongside her academic appointment, she has been working as a practicing lawyer and has collaborated with a number of NGOs in Greece, France and the UK, including the Greek Council for Refugees, the French Observatory of Intercultural Territories and the international organization for Freedom of Expression, Article 19. In 2015, she produced a country report on ‘Freedom of Expression in Greece’ for the International Press Institute (IPI). Dr Polymenopoulou’s profile can be found on academia.eu and she can be reached at eleni.polymenopoulou@brunel.ac.uk.