Ekaterina Yahyaoui

Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko is an Established Professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law. She is a member of the Standing Committee on International Affairs of the Royal Irish Academy. From 2016 to 2024, she served as 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 at McGill University, Canada, from 2012 to 2022. She also chaired the coordinating committee of the Interest Group on International Legal Theory and Philosophy of the European Society of International Law.

Ekaterina has acted as an independent expert evaluator for the EU Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Programmes. 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, women’s rights, international refugee and migration law, and human rights and Islam at the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal. She was also a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERIUM) and at the Canada Chair in International Migration Law at the University of Montreal. Before joining CERIUM, she worked as a legal advisor on a project for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Ekaterina was a member of the Quebec Bar and holds a BA from the University of Geneva (Switzerland), an LLM from the University Albert‐Ludwigs (Freiburg i. Br., Germany), a D.E.S. in International Relations and a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva).

She researches and publishes in areas including general public international law, global governance and international constitutionalism, the rule of law, the history of international law (with an emphasis on the early modern period), and human rights, particularly women’s rights and gender. Her interests also span the relationship between Islam and human rights, international refugee and migration law, comparative law and legal cultures, feminist analyses of law, and law and the humanities. She has particular expertise in theoretical and philosophical approaches underpinning these fields, and is especially interested in the effects of globalisation on human rights, equality and global governance, including questions of democracy.

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

She has published extensively on these issues in leading international peer‐reviewed journals, including the European Journal of International Law, Human Rights Quarterly, the International Journal of Refugee Law and Law and History Review. She is the author of five monographs and one edited collection.

Ekaterina welcomes expressions of interest from prospective PhD candidates in any of the above‐mentioned areas. She is deeply committed to supporting students’ research development and sharing her experience. Her students are recipients of prestigious scholarships and academic prizes.