Ganna Yudkivska

Ganna Yudkivska is a Ukrainian judge born in Kyiv. She is currently the judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine.^[1]

Dr Ganna Yudkivska was born in 1973 in Kyiv, Ukraine. She graduated from the Law Faculties of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University (Ukraine) and Université Strasbourg III (France). She has her PhD diploma from the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine.

In 1995-2001 she led in Ukraine and Moldova the legacy project on genocide studies (now – Shoah Institute of the University of South California), and also served as human rights and national minorities expert for the Congress of National Minorities of Ukraine. Between 2001 and 2005 she worked as a lawyer and expert for different human rights organizations, as of 2003 she was a defense attorney and member of the Bar. In 2005-2009 she was a lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights, in 2009-2010 - advisor to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe.

In 2010 Ganna Yudkivska was elected a judge of the European Court of Human Rights; in 2015–2016 she was Vice-President of Section V of the Court, as of 2017 she is President of Section IV of the Court.

Judge Yudkivska is also an Associate Professor of European and International law at the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine. She lectured and researched at universities of USA, France, the Netherlands, Israel and Ukraine. She authored a number of scientific articles on human rights, international law and criminal procedure.

Yudkivska is a Member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law and of the Executive Board of the Ukrainian Association of International Law.

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