Dr Ebba Lekvall

Biography

Ebba joined Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre in September 2021. She holds a PhD and an LLM in International Human Rights Law, both from University of Essex, a BA in Jurisprudence/LLB (Hons) from University of Oxford, and a BA in International and Comparative Politics from the American University of Paris. Ebba's PhD thesis examined the applicability of existing legal standards of reparation to domestic reparation programmes in transitional justice contexts. Her main research interests and areas of expertise are reparation, transitional justice, international criminal law, indigenous rights as well as international human rights law. Outside of academia, Ebba has experience in the fields of EU policy, refugee law, and international criminal law. Before returning to Essex for her PhD, Ebba worked as an international research fellow and EU policy expert at Group for Legal and Political Studies, a local think tank in Prishtina, Kosovo, and as a case officer/refugee status determination officer at the Swedish Migration Agency, interviewing asylum seekers and writing decisions on asylum applications. She has also worked as a law clerk in the Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), where she assisted the Chamber in the writing of the judgment in the Stanisic and Zupljanin case and in the pre-trial phase of the Hadzic case. Ebba also spent some time at the International Criminal Court, working in the Office of the Prosecutor, Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division, Situation Analysis Section.

Qualifications

• PhD University of Essex, (2021)

• LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law University of Essex, (2014)

• BA in Jurisprudence (Hons)/LLB (Hons) University of Oxford, (2013)

• BA in International and Comparative Politics The American University of Paris, (2010)

Appointments

University of Essex

• Lecturer in Law, Law School, University of Essex (15/9/2021 - present)

• Assistant Lecturer / Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Essex (9/10/2017 - 31/7/2020)

Other academic

• Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Birmingham City University (1/10/2020 - 14/9/2021)

• Associate Fellowship, Higher Education Academy (3/7/2019 - present)