Ekaterina Yahyaoui

Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko is an Associate Professor in the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law. Ekaterina is a member of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the Royal Irish Academy. From 2016 to 2024 she was Vice-Dean for Research in the College of Business, Public Policy, and Law. She was an associate researcher at the Hans and Tamara Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, McGill University, Canada from 2012 to 2022. She was a Chair of the coordinating committee of the Interest Group on International Legal Theory and Philosophy of the European Society of International Law. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko acted as an independent expert evaluator for the EU Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe Programme. From 2013 to 2016 she led an EU FP7 funded project addressing the challenge of human rights in global constitutionalism. Previously, she taught public international law, womens rights, international refugee and migration law, and human rights and Islam at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal. She was also a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERIUM) and the Canada Chair in International Migration Law of the University of Montreal. Before joining CERIUM she worked, among other things, as a legal advisor for a project of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko was a member of the Quebec Bar and holds a B.A. from the University of Geneva (Switzerland), an LL.M. from the University Albert-Ludwigs (Freiburg i. Br., Germany), a D.E.S. in international relations and a Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva). She researchers and publishes in such areas as general public international law, global governance and international constitutionalism, rule of law, history of international law (emphasis on early modern period), human rights with a particular emphasis on womens rights and gender, relationship between Islam and human rights, international refugee and migration law, comparative law and legal cultures, feminist analyses of law, law and humanities. She has a particular expertise in theoretical and philosophical approaches underpinning these areas. She is particularly interested in effects of globalisation on human rights, equality and global governance, including in questions of democracy.

Ekaterina's research interests include: global justice and equality, spatial justice and spatiotemporality of law; theory and philosophy of law (particular emphasis on early modern and postmodern thought as well as non-western philosophies and worldviews); general public international law; gender and womens rights; cultural diversity and human rights; Islam and human rights; refugee and migration law; feminist approaches to law.

She published on these issues extensively in leading international peer-reviewed journals such as European Journal of International Law, Human Rights Quarterly, International Journal of Refugee Law or Law and History Review. She is author of five monographs and one edited collection. Ekaterina welcomes expressions of interest from potential PhD candidates in any of the above mentioned areas. She eagerly supports students' research abilities and shares her experience. Her students are recipients of prestigious scholarships and prizes.

Through the course of her career Ekaterina conceptualised, developed and taught following modules:

Human Rights

Public International Law

Global Governance and Human Rights

Feminist Analyses of International Law

International Women`s Rights

Gender and Human Rights

Human Rights and Islam

International Refugee and Migration Law

She also taught sessions on research methodologies and methods to Masters and PhD students