Hélène Tigroudja is Prof. of Public International Law at Aix-Marseille University (France) and she has been serving as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee since 2019. She has been re-elected to serve a second term until 2026. She has been appointed as Special Rapporteur on New Communications and Interim Measures. Hélène was a Hauser Global Professor at NYU (2021-2023) and is a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of Internationale Affairs and Development in Geneva and at the Geneva Academy of Human rights and humanitarian law (2024-2025). She has published extensively on various topics dealing with human rights and international law. She recently co-authored the Commentary of the American Convention on Human Rights (OUP, 2022) and a Treatise of International Human Rights Law (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).
In 2023, she gave a course at The Hague Academy of International Law on “Armed Conflicts and Human Rights” that will be published in the Collected Courses of The Hague Academy of International Law (forthcoming, Brill). Since 2002, she has acted regularly as an expert for the Council of Europe; UNESCO, and the European Union. Her focus in teaching and research ranges from international law, European law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international migration law, with special focus on comparative approaches of universal and regional human rights mechanisms; remedies; States’ and International Organisations’ immunities; and the application of human rights in context of armed conflicts and situations of occupation.
