merilin kiviorg
(University of Tartu)

e-mail: merilin.kiviorg@wolfson.ox.ac.uk; merilinkiviorg@hotmail.com
Merilin Kiviorg was born in 1973 in Kohtla-Järve, Estonia.
Education
- Doctoral Student, University of Oxford (United Kingdom), Oct. 2002
- Doctoral Student, University of Tartu (Estonia), Sept. 2001- Sept. 2002

Studies abroad
- Visiting Scholar, University of Helsinki, Finland, April 2002
- Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, January 2002

- Visiting Scholar, Oxford University, United Kingdom, 1999–2000
- Central European University, Summer University, Hungary. Course on Legal Theory and Judicial Review, Summer, 1998

Present position
Lecturer of International Law and EC Law, Chair of Public International Law and EC Law Faculty of Law University of Tartu, Estonia, 2001-current

Key qualifications

Public International Law, Human Rights, Basic Rights, Law on Religions, Individual and Collective Freedom of Religion and Belief, Human Rights in EU, Regulatory Impact Analysis.

Research projects and Grants

Scatcherd European Scholarship 2002-2005 for Ph.D. studies at the University of Oxford

Publications
(1996–2005, main)
- Kiviorg, M., The Permissible Scope of Legal Limitations on the Freedom of Religion or Belief in Estonia in Emory International Law Review (in publication, expected June 2005).
- Kiviorg, M, Chiesa e Stato in Estonia in Ferrari, S., W.C. Durham Jr., et al (eds.) Diritto e Religione Nell’Europa Post-Communista, 2004, pp. 131-160.
- Kiviorg, M. State and Church in Estonia. – Ferrari, S., W.C. Durham Jr., et al (eds.) Law and Religion in Post-Communist Europe. Peeters: Belgium, 2003, pp. 99-120.
- Kiviorg, M, State and Church in Estonia. – Messner, F. (ed.). The Status of Religious Confessions of the States Applying for Membership to the European Union. Université Robert Shuman – CNRS, Strasbourg. Giuffré Editore: Milano, 2002, pp. 115-138.
- Kiviorg, M, Law, Religion and Politics. – Rechtstheorie. Zeitschrift für Logik, Methodenlehre, Kybernetik und Soziologie des Rechts. Berlin: Duncker-Humblot, 2001.