Antoine De Spiegeleir is a PhD Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, as well as an Associate Researcher at the Université Saint-Louis — Bruxelles in Belgium. Prior to his PhD, he worked as a Research and Teaching Assistant at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Antoine studied law and philosophy in Brussels, Leuven, and Zurich, and obtained an LLM from Yale Law School ('22), where he served as a member of the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and as a Research Assistant for the Schell Center for International Human Rights and for the Law, Ethics, and Animals Program.