Grégor Puppinck

Dr. Puppinck is the Director of the European Centre for Law and Justice, a non-governmental organization based in Strasbourg (France) with special Consultative Status with ECOSOC-UN.The ECLJ advocates for the protection of religious and conscientious freedoms, family, life and subsidiarity within various human rights institutions. The ECLJ is involved in most of the important cases in the field of bioethics, religious freedom, and state-church relationships before the European Court of Human Rights. Grégor Puppinck also serves as an expert at the Council of Europe for the Holy See and as an adviser to several Member States of the Council of Europe. He frequently provides expert briefings before various national, European and International bodies. He teaches human rights and advocacy at the Law School of Strasbourg. From 2003 to 2009, he taught human rights, international law and constitutional law. After earning his Master of Law from the Law School of Pantheon-Assas (University Paris II), he graduated from the “Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales” (IHEI). He holds a Ph.D. in law with a dissertation on the elaboration of the norms in the field of bioethics and is the author of numerous academic articles. He is Knight Commander of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great and Cavaliere della Repubblica of Italy.