Iryna Marchuk

CV

Education

2015 - General Management Certificate of Achievement (GMCA), Judge Business School, University of Cambridge (UK)

2011  - Ph.D. (International Criminal Law), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

2008 - LL.M. (International Human Rights Law), Faculty of Law, Lund University in cooperation with the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Sweden)

Employment history 

2013-present - Associate Professor of International Criminal Law, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2013-2016 - Head of PhD School and Research Education, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2012-2013 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2010 - Visiting Professional, Appeals Division (Chambers), International Criminal Court (The Netherlands)

2011-2012 - Research Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen (co-funded by the Danish Ministry of Justice)

2008-2011 - PhD Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen

2008 - Legal Trainee, UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone, Office of the Prosecutor, Prosecutor v Charles Taylor (The Netharlands)

2007 - Legal Trainee, United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Office of the Prosecutor, Prosecutor v Popovic et al. (The Netherlands)

Visiting fellowships

2023 - Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, Stanford University (United States)

2016 - Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash Law School, Melbourne (Australia)

2009-2010 - Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)

Internal tasks and administration

Short presentation

Dr Iryna Marchuk is an associate professor of international and criminal law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. Her main research interests lie in the fields of international criminal law, public international law and international dispute settlement. Iryna was previously affiliated with a number of international courts, such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court. Iryna has published extensively on the subject of Ukraine’s pursuit of accountability in various international fora in response to the Russia-Ukraine war, powerful states’ approaches to international law, international strategic litigation arising out of situations of armed conflict and the theory of international criminal law. Iryna’s scholarly work appeared in the world’s leading journals, such as J Int’l Crim Justice, Vanderbilt J Transn’l L, J Int’l Const. L and Yale J Int’l Affairs. She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) for the 3-year EASTERNISATION project supported by the Danish Research Fund that examines the roles that Russia and China play in the regionalisation of international law and the impact this process exerts on the stability of the international legal order.

She is responsible for the graduate course International Criminal Law and Procedure (15 ECTS) and co-responsible, along with associate professor Hin-Yan Liu, for the graduate courses Human Rights, Democracy and Digital Technology (15 ECTS) and Regulating Big Tech (7.5 ECTS). Iryna supervises students who wish to write their master theses or bachelor assignments in the fields of international criminal law, Danish criminal law, public international law, and human rights and technology.