Ganna Yudkivska

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Ganna (Anna) Yudkivska
Judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 June 2010
Personal details
Born	(1973-07-05) 5 July 1973 (age 48) Kyiv, Ukraine
Residence	Strasbourg

Ganna (Anna) Yuriyivna Yudkivska (Ukrainian: Ганна Юріївна Юдківська, romanized: Hanna Yuriyivna Yudkivs'ka) is a Ukrainian judge born in Kyiv. She is currently the judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine.^[1]

Yudkivska graduated from the Law Faculties of the (Ukraine) and Robert Schuman University (Université Strasbourg III) (France). She has her PhD diploma from the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine.

Yudkivska was a defense attorney and member of the Bar; she served an expert for different human rights organizations; she also led in Ukraine and Moldova Steven Spielberg's legacy project on genocide studies USC Shoah Foundation, (now Shoah Institute of the University of South California). Further, she worked as a lawyer at the Registry of the ECtHR and advisor to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe.

In 2010, 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. Yudkivska is also a Professor of European and International law at the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine. She has lectured and researched at universities of USA, France, the Netherlands, Israel and Ukraine. She has 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.

Personal life[]

Ganna Yudkivska was married to Ukrainian politician, Georgii Logvynskyi, and they have a son and a daughter.

Selected Publications[]

- Ganna Yudkivska. “Between Scylla and Charybdis–Judicial Independence and Accountability in the Populist Era". (in: “Procès équitable : perspectives régionales et internationales / Fair Trial : Regional and International Perspectives: Liber amicorum Linos-Alexandre Sicilianos, Anthemis, 2020).

- Ganna Yudkivska. “European Court of Human Rights at the time of global contemporary challenges to the human rights protection systems”. (in: Intersecting Views on National and International Human Rights Protection: Liber Amicorum Guido Raimondi, Wolf Legal Publishers, 2019).

- Ganna Yudkivska. “Territorial Jurisdiction and Positive Obligations of an Occupied State: Some Reflections on Evolving Issues Under Article 1 of the European Convention”. (in: Anne van Aaken/Iulia Motoc (eds), The ECHR and General International Law, Oxford University Press, 2018).

- Ganna Yudkivska. “The Use of Provisional/Interim Measures by International Courts in Cases of Mass Human Rights Violations: Comparative Analyses of ICJ, UNHRC, IACtHR and ECtHR Practice.” (Revista do Instituto Brasileiro de Direitos Humanos (2018), volume 17).

- Ganna Yudkivska. “Ukraine on the way to democracy: role and achievements of the European Court of Human Rights”. (in I. Motoc, I. Ziemele (eds.), The Impact of the ECHR on Democratic Change in Central and Eastern Europe: Judicial Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2016).

- Ganna Yudkivska. “Hate Speech”. (in S. Zayets, R. Martynovskyy, D. Svyrydova (eds.), Crimea Beyond Rules. Thematic review of the human rights situation under occupation. – Vol. 4., Kyiv, 2017)

- Ganna Yudkivska. “Admissibility of evidence as a guarantee of a fair trial under Article 6 of the ECHR”. (in: “Human Rights. Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights” No. 12 (93), Moscow, Russia, 2014).

- Ganna Yudkivska. “Review of general guarantees of a fair trial – Paragraph 1 of Article 6 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms”. (In: Collection "European Court of Human Rights. Judicial practice", Book 1, Kyiv, 2013).

- A.Bushchenko, G. Yudkivska “European Convention on Human Rights in the lawyers’ practice - training manual for practicing lawyers”, Kyiv, 2010.

References[]

https://orgs.law.columbia.edu/cela/events/human-rights-evolution-growing-standards-or-trivialization-ecthr-judge-anna-yudkivska