Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM

Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM
Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM

assistant professor

Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM

Research assistant at the Institute of Legal Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences (INP PAN). Ms. Vorobiova holds LLM degree in International Human Rights Law from Lund University (2021); LLM and BA from the National University Odesa Law Academy (2018 and 2016 respectively) and MA in English Language and Literature from the Odesa National I. I. Mechnikov University (2017).

In her LLM thesis Ms. Vorobiova examined ongoing militarization of education in the occupied Crimea and its implications within the international humanitarian and human rights law frameworks. She is furthering this research, by focusing on the misuse of history education in Russia and relevant implications raised within international human rights law in this regard.

Ma. Vorobiova had previously assisted in collecting factual materials and conducting legal analysis for the Global Rights Compliance project “International Law and defining Russia’s involvement in Crimea and Donbas”. She had also participated in preparation of thematic report for the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law cooperation with academic institutions of Belarus in teaching gender and law courses.

Ms. Vorobiova is a recipient of the Swedish Institute Scholarship for Global Professionals and alumni of the Swedish Institute Network for Future Global Leaders.

Main research areas:

  • international humanitarian
  • human rights law,
  • memory law,
  • international criminal justice and accountability issues.

Selected works:

  • Vorobiova A. “The Children of ‘Crimean Spring’ and the Right to Education under Belligerent Occupation”, <https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9050511>

Blog posts:

  • Anastasiia Vorobiova: Why education rights must finally be taken seriously: Exploring the perils of mnemonic indoctrination in Russia, EJIL:Talk!, 07 December 2023, https://www.ejiltalk.org/why-education-rights-must-finally-be-taken-seriously-or-exploring-the-perils-of-mnemonic-indoctrination-in-russia/
  • Anastasiia Vorobiova: The New Russian School: How Forced Labor and Propaganda are Returning to Russian School Curricula, VerfBlog, 2023/8/28, https://verfassungsblog.de/the-new-russian-school/, DOI: 10.17176/20230828-182901-0.
  • Anastasiia Vorobiova: Education as Indoctrination: Mnemonic Constitutionalism and History Teaching in Russia, VerfBlog, 2023/4/25, https://verfassungsblog.de/education-as-indoctrination-mnemonic-constitutionalism-and-history-teaching-in-russia/, DOI: 10.17176/20230425-204435-0.
  • Anastasiia Vorobiova, How ‘Nazis’ Stole the New Year: Memory Laws and Children’s Rights in Russia , Völkerrechtsblog, 22.12.2022, doi: 10.17176/20221222-121439-0.
  • Воробйова А. “Нічого для нас і про нас без нас”. Чому важливо залучати внутрішньо переміщених осіб до діалогу. 26 травня 2021 (укр.) <https://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2021/05/26/7294843/>
  • Vorobiova A. (26 May 2021) “Nothing for us and about us without us.” Why it is important to include internally displaced persons in dialogue (in UKR). 

Journal articles:

  • Vorobiova, A. (2023). The “Lessons of Nuremberg”: Their Use and Abuse in the Current Russia-Ukraine War. Polish Yearbook of International Law, 42, 55–82. https://doi.org/10.24425/PYIL.2023.147170
  • Vorobiova A. (March 2021) “No paper – no man: how armed conflict in Ukraine paves new roads to statelessness”. Jus Humanis Journal, (4), 94. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/jushumanis/docs/jus_humanis_4th_issue/94

Reports:

  • Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Aleksandra and Baranowska, Grażyna and Wójcik, Anna and Sadowski, Mirosław and Vorobiova, Anastasiia (2023) Memory Laws in Poland and Hungary : Report by the Research Consortium ‘The Challenges of Populist Memory Politics and Militant Memory Laws (MEMOCRACY)’. Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8014240)
  • Kandrichina I., Vorobiova A. et al (27 May 2020). Gender and Law: First Experience of Teaching in Belarus. Lund; Raoul Wallenberg Institute. Retrieved from https://rwi.lu.se/download/gender-and-law-first-experience-of-teaching-in-belarus/