Prof Veronika Fikfak
Veronika Fikfak is a Professor of Human Rights and International Law at University College London, School of Public Policy and a co-Director of the UCL Institute for Human Rights. She also holds academic positions at the iCourts Centre of Excellence, University of Copenhagen and at the University of Oslo. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge and Sciences Po in Paris. She holds a masters and doctorate in law from the University of Oxford and a first law degree from the University of Ljubljana.
Veronika’s research interests are in the fields of international law, human rights, and public law. Her current research focuses on reparations and compensation in international law, execution and enforcement of international judgments, automation and human rights, access to human rights justice, children’s claims in climate litigation, and system design. She has published widely and has received several awards for her work, especially on friendly settlement. Her articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Law, American Journal of International Law, International Journal of Constitutional Law. Veronika has received more than 5 million euros to lead research teams from the European Research Council (Starting and Consolidator grants), UK’s ESRC Future Research Leaders Grant, the British Academy, Norway’s Research Council, Carlsberg Foundation, and the Humboldt Foundation.
Veronika is currently a judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights, an expert member of the Advisory Committee to the UN Human Rights Council, and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. She is part of the working group of the Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law of the Council of Europe on enforcing European Court’s damage awards against the Russian Federation. Veronika serves as the Vice President of the European Society of International Law and a General Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement. She previously worked at the European Court of Human Rights, the International Court of Justice, and at the Law Commission for England and Wales. She has been a Senior Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of Law and Economics in Hamburg and an Emile Noel Fellow at New York University.