Election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights

List and curricula vitae of candidates submitted by the Government of Ukraine

Communication | Doc. 15359 | 03 September 2021

Author(s):

Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly

Contents

1Letter from Mr Borys Tarasyuk, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, to Ms Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 10 August 2021.

2National selection procedure for the post of judge to the European Court of Human Rights

Appendix 1– Mykola GNATOVSKYY

Appendix 2– Oleksandr MEREZHKO

Appendix 3– Gaiane NURIDZHANIAN

1 Letter from Mr Borys Tarasyuk, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe, to Ms Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly, dated 10 August 2021.

Referring to my letter of 21 May 2021 (No. 931011/32-119/11-33604) and following the consideration by the Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election as Judge to the European Court of Human Rights of the list of the three Ukrainian candidates selected by the national Selection Commission, I have the honour to submit herewith, upon the instructions of my government, for further consideration by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the list of the above mentioned candidates to the position of judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine as follows:

• Mr Mykola Gnatovskyy,
• Mr Oleksandr Merezhko,
• Ms Gaiane Nuridzhanian,

as well as their curricula vitae and the information on national selection procedure.

…

2 National selection procedure for the post of judge to the European Court of Human Rights

The national selection procedure to nominate the candidates for the European Court of Human Rights was organised in Ukraine in accordance with the respective recommendations of the Council of Europe and, in particular, taking into account PACE Resolution 1646 (2009) “Nomination of candidates and election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights”.

The national selection procedure was structured as follows.

1. To ensure fairness, transparency and consistency of the selection process, on 19 February 2021, the Presidential Decree No. 63 was issued establishing an open procedure to form the list of the candidates for the European Court of Human Rights.

The above mentioned decree also:

• approved Regulations of the competition;
• established an independent Commission to conduct the competition.

The Commission was composed of leading scientists in the field of international law who are highly qualified and have considerable experience in the realm of protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Mr Оlexander Serdyuk, Professor of the Department of International Law at the Yaroslav Mudriy National Law University, Doctor of Judicial Science, was appointed as Head of the Commission.

2. Information about the national selection process was widely disseminated:

On 27 February 2021, in accordance with paragraph 6 of the mentioned Regulations, the competition announcement was published on the official website of the President of Ukraine and in the official state media resources the newspapers of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine «Voice of Ukraine» and of the Government of Ukraine «Governmental Courier».

3. According to the Regulations, candidates had an opportunity to submit their applications within 30 days – from 1 March to 31 March 2021.

19 persons submitted documents for the participation in the selection process and 18 applications were admitted by the Commission, as one of the candidates submitted the documents after the deadline.

List of the persons who duly submitted the documents was published on the website of the President of Ukraine on 5 April 2021, as provided for in the Regulations.

4. On 5 April 2021, the information about dates and place as well as modalities of the testing process of the candidates’ knowledge of the official languages of the Council of Europe was published on the official website of the President of Ukraine.

On 26 April 2021, the information about the dates of the interviews was issued by the Commission on the presidential website.

The language tests were held from 20 to 23 April 2021.

Taking into account strict quarantine restrictions all over Ukraine and abroad and in order to ensure that the principles of equality, openness and transparency are respected by all the participants, the Commission provided the candidates, who for valid reasons failed to arrive in Ukraine within the specified period, with a possibility to participate in the testing and interviews online.

17 candidates out of 18 admitted took part in the language tests, while 2 candidates did not attend them.

5. On 13-14 May 2021, the Commission interviewed the candidates who had passed the language tests.

Following the interviews, the Commission by open ballot decided to recommend the following three persons to be included into the list of candidates for the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine:

• Mr Mykola GNATOVSKYY
• Mr Oleksandr MEREZHKO
• Ms Gaiane NURIDZHANIAN

While adopting the list, the Commission proceeded from the following criteria:

• the motivation to be a judge of the European Court of Human Rights;
• integrity of the candidates;
• appropriate education and professional experience and/or academic career in the field of law and/or work experience in the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms;
• knowledge of the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, its protocols, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights and national law;
• knowledge of the national legislation;
• level of proficiency in official languages of the Council of Europe.

The Commission also took into account the compliance of candidates with the requirements to applicants for the position of judge of the Supreme Court of Ukraine and high specialized courts, as provided by the Law of Ukraine “On the Judiciary and Status of Judges”.

6. The list of selected candidates has been sent by the Chairman of the Commission to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for further submission to the Council of Europe.

Appendix 1 – Mykola GNATOVSKYY

CURRICULUM VITAE [(1) . Current position or responsibilities shown in bold type.]

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Gnatovskyy, Mykola

Sex: male

Date and place of birth: 1 July 1977, Kyiv, Ukraine

Nationality: Ukraine

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• PhD in International Law, thesis “Formation and Trends of Development of a European Legal Space” (2002)
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of International Relations: doctoral studies in International Law (1999-2002)
• Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of International Relations: LLM in International Law (1999, cum laude), English interpreter (1999), B.A. (1998)
• Diploma of Associate Professor (“Docent”) of International Law awarded in 2011
• Advanced course on international humanitarian law, the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, United States (2010)
• Advanced course on asymmetrical international relations, University of York, Toronto, Canada (2004)

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• Member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) (since December 2009)
• President of the CPT (March 2015 – March 2021)
• Second Vice-President of the CPT (March 2013 – March 2015)
• Associate Professor at the Department of International Law, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (since January 2007); teaching European Human Rights Law, Human Rights in Armed Conflicts, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law and Procedure, International Litigation, International Dispute Settlement, Law of Treaties, Public International Law
• Assistant Professor of International Law, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (July 2003 – January 2007)
• Assistant Professor of Comparative Law, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (November 2002 – July 2003)
• Guest Professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Human Rights Law Master’s Programme; teaching a special course on International Standards related to the Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (October 2017 – March 2020)
• Member of the National Commission for the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law (since 2015)
• Senior Legal and Constitutional Advisor, Democracy Reporting International (September 2014 – September 2020)
• Member of the Advisory Council for the Universal Protocol for Investigative Interviewing and Associated Safeguards – joint project of the Anti-Torture Initiative (Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University of Washington, College of Law), the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (University of Oslo), and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (Geneva) (October 2018 – May 2021)
• International consultant on the prevention of torture and other forms of ill-treatment / human rights of persons deprived of their liberty, Council of Europe/European Union programmes/projects in Bulgaria, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine – since 2013
• International consultant on the prevention of ill-treatment (training for judges and prosecutors on the ECtHR case law and the CPT jurisprudence), Amnesty International and National School of Magistrates, Moldova (2017)
• International consultant on the prevention of torture issues, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Uzbekistan (2018)
• Expert on human rights, Office of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (since 2010)
• Expert on human rights and gender issues, UNDP in Ukraine (2006-2009)
• Expert on international law, Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (2004)
• Expert on international humanitarian law/academic partner, International Committee of the Red Cross (since 2003) – inter alia selecting Ukraine’s practice for the Customary International Humanitarian Law Database, peer reviewing of the new ICRC Commentary on Geneva Convention I and Geneva Convention III
• Speaker at numerous international conferences on human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law held in Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, France, Georgia, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Moldova, The Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan (since 2002)

b. Description of non-legal professional activities

• First Vice-President of the Ukrainian Association of International Law (since December 2017)
• Board member, Expert Centre for Human Rights, Kyiv, Ukraine (since 2018)
• Member of the Editorial Board, Belarusian Yearbook of International Law (Minsk) – 2015
• Member of the Editorial Board, Міжнародне право / International Law (2012–2014)
• Member of the Editorial Board, International Review of the Red Cross (Geneva/Oxford) – 2011–2015
• Member of the Editorial Board, Альманах международного права / International Law Almanac (2011-2013)
• Member of the Editorial Board, Studii Juridice Universitare (Chisinau) – since 2010
• Member of the Editorial Board, Український часопис міжнародного права / Ukrainian Journal of International Law (since 2000)
• Executive editor, Ukrainian Yearbook of International Law (2007–2010)
• Executive editor, “Library of the International Law Chair” series (2004–2014)
• Member of the Editorial Council, Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine (2015–2016)
• Member of the Editorial Board, Международное правосудие / International Justice (Moscow) – 2012-2013
• Academic secretary, Ukrainian Association of International Law (2007–2017)
• Assistant to the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine (2002–2005)
• Assistant to the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Policy of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine (2000–2002)

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

I have researched and taught international human rights law and the law of the Council of Europe as well as international humanitarian law and international criminal law for more than 20 years.

As a member and President of the CPT, I have gained direct and vast experience both with human rights work in the field and the practical application of the European Convention on Human Rights and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights to the situation of persons deprived of their liberty. I have visited hundreds of places of deprivation of liberty across Europe, participated in the drafting of over 40 and the adoption of over 170 CPT reports and have conducted numerous talks with the relevant authorities (at the ministerial level but also at the level of prime minister) on the measures to implement the CPT’s recommendations and the related judgments of the ECtHR. I have also participated in the development of the CPT standards related to the prevention of ill-treatment of persons deprived of their liberty. Moreover, I have participated in several exchanges of views between the European Court of Human Rights and the CPT and represented the CPT during such exchanges. In addition, I have represented the CPT at the exchanges of views with the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe as well as with the Standing Committee and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, meetings of heads of monitoring and advisory bodies of the Council of Europe, as well as in meetings with various United Nations bodies and institutions of the European Union.

As an international consultant, I work for human rights projects supported by the Council of Europe and the European Union both inside and outside the Council of Europe area, concentrating on human rights of persons deprived of their liberty and the human rights violations in the context of armed conflicts. I have trained judges, prosecutors and members of national preventive mechanisms in Georgia, Moldova, and Kazakhstan.

At the domestic level, I provide regular trainings on human rights issues for judges of various courts (from the first instance courts to the Supreme Court of Ukraine), prosecutors, members of the National Preventive Mechanism and the Ombudsperson’s office, staff of the Secretariat of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine. I have also provided advice on human rights issues to the Children’s Ombudsperson of Ukraine, members of parliament, prosecutor’s office as well as judges.

VI. Other activities

• Vice-Director for Academic Activities, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (December 2008 – December 2010)
• Secretary of the Academic Council, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (September 2007 – January 2009)
• Secretary of the Specialized Academic Council (International Law), Institute of International Relations, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University (2004–2009)
• Member of the European Society of International Law
• Member of the American Society of International Law

VII. Publications and other works

I have published 91 books and articles, including the following ones:

• A European Legal Space. The Concept and Contemporary Issues. A Monograph, Kyiv, 2005 (in Ukrainian).
• Application of Article 3 of the ECHR by the European Court of Human Rights and the Jurisprudence of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, European Court of Human Right, Jurisprudence, Issue 1, part 3, Article 3 of the ECHR, Kyiv, 2011 (in Ukrainian).
• European Court of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law: The Right to Life, Aktualni problemy mizhmarodnykh vidnosyn, 2011, Issue 100, Part I (in Ukrainian).
• ECtHR Grand Chamber Judgment in Vinter and Others v. the United Kingdom: a commentary (with Olena Kucher), International Justice Journal (Moscow), 2014, No. 1(9) (in Russian).
• Positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and “positive complementarity” under the Rome Statute: opportunities for interaction, National Security and Defence Journal, No. 5–6 (163–164), 2016 (in Ukrainian).
• Humanitarian Law at International Courts and Tribunals: Is Institutional Fragmentation Dangerous?, International Justice Journal (Moscow), 2012, No. 1(2) (in Russian).
• International Humanitarian Law: How Limited are the Opportunities for International Justice?, International Justice Journal (Moscow), 2012, No. 2(6) (in Russian).
• Civilians in armed conflicts: the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, Civilians in contemporary armed conflicts, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 2017 (in English, Polish, and Ukrainian).
• The rights of persons deprived of their liberty in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: the dialogue between the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment with member States of the Council of Europe, Ukrainian Journal of International Law. 2020, No. 2., P. 74–76 (in Ukrainian).
• Gnatovskyy, M. International law-based monitoring of places of deprivation of liberty in Europe: some general observations, e-legal, Revue de droit et de criminologie de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, Volume No. 2, April 2019.

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
Ukrainian	x			x			x
b. Official languages:
English	x			x			x
French	x				x			x
c. Other languages:
Russian	x			x			x
Polish		x				x			x
German			x			x			x

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

I consider my level of language proficiency in French to be sufficient (C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages as established by the results of examination taken during the national selection procedure in 2021).

X. Other relevant information

If elected a judge on the Court, I undertake to resign as member of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment prior to assuming my functions as a judge.

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.

Appendix 2 – Oleksandr MEREZHKO

CURRICULUM VITAE [(2) Current position or responsibilities shown in bold type.]

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Merezhko, Oleksandr

Sex: male

Date and place of birth : 14 February 1971, Bobrynets, Ukraine

Nationality : Ukraine

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

• Specialist in International Law (1994)
• Candidate of Legal Sciences (PhD) in International Law (1996)
• Doctor of Legal Sciences (Habilitation) in International Law (2002)
• Professor of International Law (2008)
• Professor at the John Paul II University of Lublin (Poland, 2005-2011)
• Professor at the Jindal Global University (India, 2017-2018)
• Professor at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski University in Cracow (Poland, 2011-2017)
• Visiting professor at the Graduate School of International Studies (University of Denver) in 1996
• Head of the Chair of Law at the Kyiv National Linguistic University (2011-2019)
• Head of the Chair of International Law at the University of Economics and Law “KROK” (2005-2011)
• Professor at the Institute of International Relations in Kyiv (1998-2004)
• Associate Professor, deputy Head of the Chair of Foreign Policy at the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine (1997-1998)
• Fulbright Scholar in 2004-2005 and 2010-2011 at the Woodrow Wilson Centre (Washington D.C.)
• Junior Faculty Development Program in 2000-2001 (Penn State Dickinson Law School)

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

• Head of the Committee of Foreign Affairs and Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• Head of the Sub-Committee of civil law of the Committee of Legal Policy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (2019-2020)
• Member of the Ukraine’s delegation for the work of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly
• Member of the National Council of Reforms

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

• Member of the inter-factional group “Equal opportunities” in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• Member of the Temporary Investigation Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• Member of Founding Editorial Board of Oxford Bibliographies in International Law
• Member of Editorial Board of “Jus Gentium: Journal of International Legal History”

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

• Deputy Head of the Ukrainian delegation in the Trilateral Contact Group (OSCE, Russia, Ukraine)
• Member of the Ukrainian delegation in PACE
• Vice-president of PACE (2020, 2021)
• Full Member: Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (since 27/01/2020)
• Vice-Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Human Rights (since 22/03/2021)

V. Public activities

a. Public office

Member of the Board of the Ukrainian Fulbright Circle.

b. Elected posts

People’s deputy (member of parliament) of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

Member of the Political Council of the Party “Servant of the People”.

VI. Other activities

NGO “Institute of Direct Democracy”; 2018-2019; Research in the field of direct democracy and its institutions.

VII. Publications and other works

18 books and 150 scientific articles.

• Forcible protection of human rights: the issue of legitimacy in International Law. Kyiv, “Naukova dumka”, 1998 (monograph in Ukrainian language in co-authorship with M. Nelip).
• Psychological Theory of International Law (public and private), Odesa: Fenix, 2012 (monograph in Russian language).
• “Crimea’s Annexation by Russia – Contradictions of the New Russian Doctrine ofInternational Law”, Heidelberg Journal of International Law (ZaoRV) 75 (2015), P. 167-194.134.
• “Ideology of Liberalism and International Law”, Baltic Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 15, 2015, P. 55-61.
• “The Law of Interaction of Systems of Law as a Branch of Comparative Legal Science”, The Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. Ten, Issue One, 2013, P. 122-129.
• “The Unrecognized Father of Freudo-Marxism: Mikhail Reisner’s Socio-Psychological Theory of State and Law” in the monograph Russian Legal Realism, Springer 2018, p. 147-157.
• “International Law Aspects of the principle of Democracy” in Law of Ukraine (Legal Journal), 2018, p. 44.
• “Legal Hermeneutics and Methodology of Law” in Evropsky politicky a pravni diskurz, 2014, 1 Issue 2, p. 4-10.
• “Petrazycki’s Psychological Theory of Law and Economy” in the Journal of Comparative Law (No. 1, 2019).
• “The Mystery of the State Sovereignty in International Law” in Saint Louis University Law Journal 64, 23, 2019.

VIII. Languages

Language	Reading			Writing			Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language:
Ukrainian	x			x			x
b. Official languages:
English	x			x			x
French		x				x			x
c. Other languages:
Russian	x			x			x
Polish	x			x			x

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

Yes, I confirm.

X. Other relevant information

I have vast experience of teaching international law in such countries as: Ukraine, Poland, United States, India, Armenia (Diplomatic School in Yerevan), Azerbaijan (Baku State University).

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

Yes, I confirm.

Appendix 3 – Gaiane NURIDZHANIAN

CURRICULUM VITAE [(3) Current position or responsibilities shown in bold type.]

I. Personal details

Name, forename: Nuridzhanian, Gaiane

Sex: female

Date and place of birth : 19 September 1985, Ternopil region, Ukraine

Nationality : Ukraine

II. Education and academic and other qualifications

EDUCATION

• University College London (2015-2020)
• PhD degree awarded in April 2020 (without corrections); Funding: Faculty of Laws Research Studentship; Subject of study: Public International Law; Doctorate thesis: ‘Ne bis in idem in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court’; Supervisors: Professor Roger O’Keefe and Professor Kimberley Trapp
• University of Cambridge, Newnham College (2013/2014)
• LLM (International Law) (First Class) (Rank: 28 out of 227 LLM candidates); Funding: Cambridge Trust Scholarship; Courses: Foundations of Public International Law; Settlement of International Disputes; International Human Rights Law; International Criminal Law (thesis); Law of Armed Conflict (audited); Master thesis: ‘Decision on reparations in the Lubanga case from the perspective of human rights principle of presumption of innocence’; Supervisor: Professor Roger O’Keefe
• Kyiv International University (2002-2007)
• Master’s Degree (Public International Law) (Honours)
• Bachelor’s Degree (International Law/International Relations) (Honours)

RESEARCH VISITS

• Visiting Researcher at the UiT- The Arctic University of Norway (2020-presently)
• Visiting Scholar at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (2017-2018)

SHORT COURSES AND CERTIFICATES

• Key Constitutional Concepts and Supreme Court Cases, University of Pennsylvania (eCourse) (March 2018)
• International Law in Action: Arbitration of International Disputes, Leiden University (eCourse) (February 2018)
• Nuremberg Academy on International Criminal law (August 2016)
• Public International Law, The Hague Academy of International Law (July 2016)
• Salzburg Summer School on International Criminal Law, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, University of Salzburg (August 2013)
• Summer Course on the European System of Human Rights Protection, European University Viadrina (September 2005)

III. Relevant professional activities

a. Description of judicial activities

European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg, 2008 – 2012)

I worked as a junior lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights for four years. My duties involved the following: processing cases brought against Ukraine; maintaining correspondence with the parties to the proceedings; drafting decisions in allegedly inadmissible cases; drafting judgments in cases concerning straightforward violations of the Convention and, under supervision of a senior lawyer, in cases raising complex issues under the Convention.

b. Description of non-judicial legal activities

National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Faculty of Law (January 2020-present)

I work as a senior lecturer at the Department of International and European Law, where I convene and teach the following courses: European Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Introduction to U.S. Law. I also run a series of guest lectures called European Human Rights Law Lecture Series designed to allow students to meet and network with practicing international and human rights lawyers.

International Criminal Court (The Hague, March-July 2019)

I worked at the ICC in the capacity of a Legal Professional under the programme funded by the European Commission and designed to provide professional opportunities to legal professionals from countries under investigation or preliminary examination by the ICC. I was one of seven professionals who were chosen among several thousands of applicants to participate in the 2019 edition of the programme.

I worked as an editor for the Case Law Database Project (CLD) attached to the Pre-Trial Section in the ICC’s Judiciary. The Case Law Database is designed to assist internal as well as external audiences of the Court in conducting research on Court’s jurisprudence since its creation. My work consisted in reading and analysing Court's decisions, identifying and extracting relevant pronouncements on legal matters.

University College London (United Kingdom, 2016-2017)

I worked as a teaching fellow at the Faculty of Laws, University College London, where I taught Public International Law at undergraduate level and International Criminal Law at graduate level.

International Advisory Panel on Ukraine, Council of Europe (Kyiv-Strasbourg, 2014-2015)

International Advisory Panel on Ukraine (IAP) is an ad hoc body created at the initiative of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to review the investigations carried out by the Ukrainian authorities into the violent events on Maidan (Kyiv) between November 2013 and February 2014 as well as of the investigations into the tragic events in Odessa of 2 May 2014. The Panel’s task was to assess compliance of the investigations with the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights.

I worked as a lawyer for the IAP. My duties within the IAP project consisted in advising the Panel members on relevant issues of Ukrainian domestic law and its compatibility with human rights standards. I assisted the Panel in organising, preparing and holding its fact-finding missions in Ukraine. These missions consisted in meetings and exchanges with investigating authorities (prosecutors, police, security services), other state officials (Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health, Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Members of National Parliament), representatives of victims and NGOs. More specifically, I prepared the questions to be put by Panel members to the relevant actors aimed at gathering facts, as well as evaluating the state of the investigation conducted by Ukrainian authorities; drafted briefs on the collected information and prepared reports on further action required for the execution of the Panel’s mandate. Finally, I assisted the Panel in drafting of its two final reports opining on compliance of the investigations into the Maidan and Odessa violence with the ECHR requirements. These IAP reports were cited by the European Court of Human Rights in its following judgments: Polyakh and others v Ukraine, Grubnyk v Ukraine, Lutsenko and Verbytskyy v Ukraine, Shmorgunov and others v Ukraine, Kadura and Smaliy v Ukraine.

Cambridge Pro Bono Project (Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2013-2014)

I worked as a researcher for the Cambridge Pro Bono Project conducting research under a cooperation agreement between the Project and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in Kyiv (Kyiv, 2012-2013)

I worked as a lawyer for the Hebrew Immigrant Society in Kyiv (HIAS), an organisation which provides legal assistance to refugees and asylum seekers. During my time with HIAS, I was involved in preparation and submission of applications on behalf of migrants and asylum seekers to the European Court of Human Rights. More specifically, my tasks consisted in drafting applications, observations, requests for interim measures and other documents in these cases. I was also involved in instructing domestic lawyers, state officials and judges on the application of the ECHR in domestic administrative and judicial practice. Among my duties were also activities related to advocacy such as analysis of domestic legislation related to the protection of migrants and asylum seekers and drafting proposals as to amendment of the relevant legislation in light of ECHR and EU standards.

c. Description of non-legal professional activities

N/a

IV. Activities and experience in the field of human rights

For more than ten years now, since 2008, my professional and academic activities, as described in this CV, have been dedicated to human rights.

Between 2008 and 2012, I worked as a lawyer at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights and, between 2012-2013, as a lawyer providing legal assistance to refugees and asylum seekers in submitting their applications to the European Court of Human Rights.

During 2014-2015, I worked as a lawyer at the International Advisory Panel for Ukraine, a body created by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to supervise Ukraine’s investigations into the mass violence committed during Euromaidan revolution.

Between 2015 and 2020, I worked on a PhD project researching the principle of ne bis in idem in international criminal law, an area of international law essentially concerned with ensuring criminal responsibility for gravest forms of human rights violations. In 2019, I worked as a Visiting Legal Professional at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Finally, since 2020, I have been working at the Department of the International and European Law at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy, where I teach European Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law and Introduction to U.S. Law with particular emphasis on the constitutional rights and freedoms. In addition to academic work, I provide expert advice on human rights issues to domestic and international organisations. For instance, in 2019, I became a co-author of the report on human rights situation in Crimea published by the Regional Centre for Human Rights. In 2020, I coauthored a study on the state of execution of the European Court of Human Rights judgments delivered against Ukraine at the request of Pravo-Justice Project.

V. Public activities

a. Public office

• Advisory Board Member, International Human Rights module (ECHR), Oxford Reports on International Law (November 2020-present)
• Member of the Expert Council on Non-Discrimination and Protection of Minorities Rights at the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine (2012-2013)

b Elected posts

N/A

c. Posts held in a political party or movement

N/A

VI. Other activities

• Judge, International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition (2021)
• Judge, European Human Rights Moot Court Competition (2019, 2020)
• Judge, United Kingdom national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (2019)
• Judge, Ukrainian national rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (2018, 2019)
• Co-organiser, UCL Postgraduate and Early Careers Conference (2016/2017)
• Co-editor, UCL Law Journal Blog (2016/2017)
• Editor, UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2015/2016)
• Student editor, International Law Observer Blog (2013/2014)
• Intern, Parliament of Canada (2005, 2006)

VII. Publications and other works

• ‘A second bite at the cherry: A case for introducing revision of tainted acquittals into the Rome Statute’ (pending peer review)
• ‘Ne Bis In Idem in Article 20(3) of the Rome Statute and Non-State Courts’, The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, Volume 18 (Issue 2) (2019)
• ‘Crimea in International Courts and Tribunals: Matters of Jurisdiction’ in Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Volume 21 (2017)
• Katanga Case, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (May 2020)
• Ne bis in idem, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (October 2019)
• Olga Dubinska, Gaiane Nuridzhanian, ‘Forced Displacement from Crimea and its Human Rights Aspects’ published by the Regional Centre for Human Rights (December 2019)
• Sergiy Zayets, Gaiane Nuridzhanian ‘The annexation of Crimea: Continuing interference with rights guaranteed under the European Convention on Human Rights’, European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (26 April 2019)

VIII. Languages

Language		Reading			Writing		Speaking
	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair	very good	good	fair
a. First language: Ukrainian	x			x			x
b. Official languages: English	x			x			x
French	x				x		x
c. Other languages: Russian	x			x			x
Portuguese			x			x			x
Polish			x			x			x
Italian			x			x			x
Norwegian			x			x			x

IX. In the event that you do not meet the level of language proficiency required for the post of judge in an official language [the second], please confirm your intention to follow intensive language classes of the language concerned prior to, and if need be also at the beginning of, your term of duty if elected a judge on the Court

X. Other relevant information

XI. Please confirm that you will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court

I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.