Vasilka Sancin, PhD, is a full (tenured) 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. She is a member (2022-2025) of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, and served (2019-2022) as a member and Vice-Chair of the UN Human Rights Committee. Among others, she serves as an ad hoc judge at the European court of Human Rights; an arbitrator and a Bureau member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration (OSCE); an expert of the OSCE Moscow mechanism on Human Rights; a President of the Slovene Branch of International Law Association (ILA) and a co-chair of the ILA’s Committee on International Migration and International Law; email: vasilka.sancin@pf.uni-lj.si.