Vasilka Sancin

Vasilka Sancin is Professor of Public International Law, Head of the Department of International Law, Director of the Institute for International Law and International Relations at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenia). She is also a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2019-2022), Vice-Chair and Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Concluding Observations (2021-2022), and an expert for the OSCE Moscow Mechanism on Human Rights. Among other professional affiliations, she is President of the Slovene Branch and a member of the Executive Council of the International Law Association (ILA), a member of the UNODC Anti-Corruption Academic (ACAD) Initiative and the European Centre for Responsibility to Protect.

As an independent expert, she is a member of the National Interministerial Commission for Human Rights and the Inter- governmental working group on International Humanitarian Law. She teaches as a visiting professor or guest lecturer at numerous foreign institutions and is member of Editorial Boards of various legal journals.

She is also the author or editor of numerous books and articles.