Vasilka Sancin

Vasilka Sancin, PhD, is a Full Professor of International Law, Head of Department of International Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and International Relations at University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenia). She is currently a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee (2022-2025) and its Vice-Chair. She previously served as a member (2019-2022) and Vice-Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee and its Special Rapporteur for the Follow-up process to Concluding observations. Among others, she serves as ad hoc judge at the European Court of Human Rights; an arbitrator and a Bureau member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); an expert of the OSCE Moscow mechanism on Human Rights; a member of the UNODC Anti-Corruption Academic (ACAD) Initiative; a member of the Executive Council of the Universities Network for Children in Armed Conflicts (UNETCHAC); a Vice-President of the Redc Cross of Slovenia; and a President of the Slovene Branch and member of the Executive Council of the International Law Association (ILA). As a visiting professor she regularly lectures at foreign institutions all around the World and (co)authored and (co)edited numerous articles/books in the field of international law.

SANCIN, V. (2024): UN Security Council membership as a litmus test for Slovenia’s commitment to R2P, Nordic journal of human rights, 1-17. 

SANCIN, V. (2024): The ECHR and the ICCPR : a human rights-based approach to the protection of the environment and the climate system, European convention on human rights law review, 5 (2024), 1-8. 

SANCIN, V., JUHART, M. (2023): The right to safe drinking water in international law and in Slovenia’s legal framework and implementation, Agrár- és környezetjog: a CEDR Magyar Agrárjogi Egyesület tudományos közleményei = Journal of agricultural and environmental law 18 (2023) 18, 106-124.

SANCIN, V. (2023): Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage and effects of armed conflicts on nuclear power plants, Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International 14 (2023), 314-330. 

SANCIN, V. (2023): The role and impact of the OSCE Moscow mechanism reports following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, International and Comparative Law Review 23 (2023) 1, 210-227. 

SANCIN, V., TURŠIČ, D. (2023): The independence and impartiality of adjudicators in Slovenia, In: CORDERO-MOSS, G. (ed.), Independence and impartiality of international adjudicators, Cambridge; Antwerp; Chicago: Intersentia, 611-620.

She currently leads two basic research projects:

Development and use of artificial intelligence in light of the negative and positive obligations of the state to guarantee the right to life and

(Re)Conceptualization of the Legal Paradigm Regarding Climate Change: Development of a New Legal Normality for Achieving Sustainable Practices

and participates in a number of other domestic and international projects.