About us

Prof Dr Clara Burbano-Herrera has been Editor-in-Chief of The Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal since 2006. She is a Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University (Belgium) and Principal Investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant IMPACTUM.

Her research lies at the intersection between international law and human rights, focusing on the role of international human rights organs in preventing human rights violations, with particular attention to vulnerable groups. Prof Dr Burbano-Herrera has lived in and conducted socio-legal research across diverse countries. She holds a PhD in Law (Ghent University), a Master after Master in Fundamental Rights (University Carlos III, Spain), a Master after Master in Constitutional Law (National University of Colombia), and a Master of Laws (University of Los Andes, Colombia). For her research, she has been awarded the Dutch Prince Bernhard Prize for Innovative Research. Together with Prof Dr Yves Haeck, she co-founded the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, where she continues to serve as co-director.

Prof Dr Yves Haeck has served alongside her as Editor-in-Chief of The Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal since 2006. He is a Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University (Belgium), where he teaches International Human Rights Law, Human Rights in Developing Countries, and International Moot Court Human Rights. He is also a guest professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and the University of Pretoria (South Africa). Previously, he was a lecturer at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) and a guest professor at the University of Malta (Malta).

Prof Dr Haeck holds a PhD in Law (Ghent University) and a Master of Laws (Ghent University). He is the co-founder of the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. His research focuses on substantial and procedural issues before regional and universal human rights adjudicators, with particular emphasis on admissibility conditions. He is also interested in substantive human rights questions related to absolute rights and the protection of human rights in the context of migration. Together with Prof Dr Clara Burbano-Herrera, he founded the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, where he also serves as co-director.

Dr Alessandra Cuppini was appointed Managing Editor of The Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal in November 2025. She is the project manager of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at Ghent University’s Faculty of Law and Criminology (Belgium). From 2022 to 2025, she was a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the same Faculty, where her research examined how victims’ narratives can be more effectively integrated into the proceedings of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Before joining Ghent University, Dr Cuppini was an Associate Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law of The Open University (UK), and previously a Teaching Assistant and Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde Law School (UK). Funded by the Campbell Burns Scholarship, she completed her PhD in Law at the University of Strathclyde (UK). She holds an LLB in Law and an LLM in International Law from the University of Bologna (Italy).