Ganna Yudkivska


Ganna Yuriyivna Yudkivska is a Ukrainian lawyer and judge. She was the judge of the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Ukraine in 2010-2022. She is a Member of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Early life

She was born in Kyiv. Yudkivska graduated from the Law Faculties of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Robert Schuman University . She has her PhD diploma from the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine.
In 1999, she attended the Human Rights school of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Warsaw and in 2004 a specialized formation in litigation in Human Rights by the Netherlands Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and Interrights in Soesterberg.

Career

Yudkivska was a defense attorney and member of the Bar; she served as an expert for human rights organizations; she led in Ukraine and Moldova Steven Spielberg's legacy project on genocide studies, USC Shoah Foundation,. 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 served as Vice-President of Section V of the Court. In 2017 she became President of Section IV of the Court. Her term ended in 2022. As a judge of the ECHR, she was cited in an NGO report as she seated in four cases where a Helsinki Committee NGO was an applicant and four others where it was a third party involved. This could pose the question of a possible conflict of interest.
Yudkivska is a Professor of European and International law at the Academy of Advocacy of Ukraine. She has lectured and researched at universities in the US, France, the Netherlands, Israel and Ukraine. She has authored scientific articles on human rights, international law and criminal procedure.
Yudkivska is a member of the Board of the European Society of International Law.

Personal life

Ganna Yudkivska's husband is Ukrainian politician, Georgii Logvynskyi, and they have a son and a daughter.

Selected publications

  • “Between Scylla and Charybdis–Judicial Independence and Accountability in the Populist Era"..
  • “European Court of Human Rights at the time of global contemporary challenges to the human rights protection systems”..
  • “Territorial Jurisdiction and Positive Obligations of an Occupied State: Some Reflections on Evolving Issues Under Article 1 of the European Convention”..
  • “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.”.
  • “Ukraine on the way to democracy: role and achievements of the European Court of Human Rights”..
  • “Hate Speech”.
  • “Admissibility of evidence as a guarantee of a fair trial under Article 6 of the ECHR”..
  • “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”. .
  • Bushchenko A., Yudkivska, G. “European Convention on Human Rights in the lawyers’ practice * training manual for practicing lawyers”, Kyiv, 2010.