Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM

Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM
Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM

assistant professor

Anastasiia Vorobiova, LLM

Research Assistant at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (INP PAN). She holds an LL.M. degree in International Human Rights Law from Lund University (2021), an LL.M. and B.A. in Law from the National University “Odesa Law Academy” (2018, 2016), and an M.A. in English Language and Literature from Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University (2017).

Her doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias within the MEMOCRACY Project, examines the misuse of history education in Russia and its implications under international human rights law. In 2024, she was awarded the NCN Preludium Grant (No. 2024/53/N/HS5/00119) for her project “Education or Indoctrination? The Misuse and Abuse of History Education as a Violation of Children’s Rights during the Russia–Ukraine War”, which she currently implements within the Poznań Human Rights Center.

Ms. Vorobiova is also active in Ukrainian civil society. She serves as a legal advisor to the international foundation Global Rights Compliance on prosecuting wartime collaborators and previously advised the Ukrainian NGO ‘Almenda’ on children’s rights issues. She authored and co-authored numerous publications covering violations of children’s rights on Russia-occupied territories; battling Russian disinformation and propaganda during and armed conflict; and is currently working on practical handbooks on prosecuting wartime collaborators in Ukraine.

She is a recipient of the Swedish Institute Scholarship for Global Professionals and an alumna 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 publications:

  • Vorobiova, A. (2025). “The Stolen Children: Russia’s Policy Towards Ukrainian Minors Transferred after the Outbreak of the War – An International Law Perspective.” In: Balcerzak M. and Cała-Wacinkiewicz E (eds.) ‘Legal Perspectives on the Russia–Ukraine War’, Routledge.
  • Vorobiova, A. (2024). “Russian Federation.” In: Heinze, E. (ed.) Criminalising Hate Speech. T.M.C. Asser Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-650-5_17 
  • 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. (2021). “The Children of ‘Crimean Spring’ and the Right to Education under Belligerent Occupation.”, 2021. https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication/9050511 

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