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Dr Veronika Fikfak

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Associate Professor in International Law
Room: 3.02, 31 Tavistock Square
Email: v.fikfak@ucl.ac.uk
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Biography

Dr Fikfak is an Associate Professor in International Law and Deputy Director for Research. She is currently principal investigator on an ERC-funded project Human Rights Nudge and a Senior Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of Law and Economics in Hamburg. She is a managing editor of the American Journal of International Law Unbound and joint General Editor of the OUP Book Series of the European Society of International Law. She is a member of the Board of the European Society of International Law, where she co-founded the ESIL Interest Group on Social Sciences and International Law. She also serves as a judge ad hoc at the European Court of Human Rights. Prior to joining UCL, she worked at the Centre of Excellence, iCourts at the University of Copenhagen, at the University of Cambridge, and at Sciences Po in Paris. She holds a Master’s and doctorate degree from the University of Oxford and a first law degree from the University of Ljubljana. 

Research

Dr Fikfak’s research interests lie in the fields of international law, human rights, and public law. Her current research focuses on reparations for human rights violations, compliance with international norms, interaction of domestic and international law, and system design. She employs quantitative and qualitative approaches in her work, informed by psychology and behavioural economics. Her work has been funded by the European Research Council, UK’s ESRC Future Research Leaders Grant, the British Academy, Norway’s Research Council, Carlsberg Foundation, and the Humboldt Foundation. She has published articles in European Journal of International Law, American Journal of International Law, and International Journal of Constitutional Law, among others.

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Podcast: UCL Uncovering Politics

Hear Dr Fikfak speak about her research on the following podcast episode:
S8 Ep7 | The Politics of the European Court of Human Rights

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Teaching

Dr Fikfak teaches on the ‘Human Rights and World Politics’ module.