Cathérine Van de Graaf conducts empirical legal research on discrimination, freedom of religion and procedural justice before the ECtHR and national equality bodies at Ghent University and University of Cologne. She regularly contributes to third party interventions before the ECtHR and is a Strasbourg Observers editor. Júlia Miklasová is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne. She obtained her PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute Geneva (2021). Her research focuses on general international law, especially the law of statehood, and its intersection with European human rights law. Paula Rhein-Fischer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy for European Human Rights Protection of the University of Cologne. She works in the fields of constitutional and public international law, in particular on the relationship between law and time, memory laws, and militant democracy.