Merilin Kiviorg

is a Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law at the University of Tartu School of Law. She obtained her doctorate as well as taught international law at the University of Oxford. She was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She has advised governmental bodies in Estonia. She is currently a member of the Panel of Experts on Freedom of Religion or Belief of the OSCE/ODIHR and a member of the Chancellor of Justice’s Human Rights Advisory Board in Estonia. She is a principal investigator in the project ‘Russia and Consolidation of Regional International Law in Eurasia’. Her research interests are religion and human rights, human rights and security, and impact of international human rights treaties at the domestic level. She is the author of multiple articles and books in the listed fields, including ‘Dangers of the Changing Narrative of Human Rights - Why Democracy and Security need Religious Freedom’ in Rex Ahdar (Ed.), Research Handbook on Law and Religion (Edward Elgar 2018); ‘Collective Religious Autonomy versus Individual Rights: A Challenge for the ECtHR?’ in Review of Central and East European Law, 39 (Brill 2014); ‘Church and State in Estonia’ in Gerhard Robbers (Ed.), Church and State in the European Union (Nomos 2019).