Hélène Tigroudja

Hélène Tigroudja

Law Professor at Aix-Marseille University and a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

Areas of expertise

International Human Rights Law  /  International Criminal Court  /  International Criminal Law  /  UN Human Rights Mechanisms  /  Reparations  /  International Migration Law  /  International Law  /  European Law

Hélène Tigroudja is a Law Professor at Aix-Marseille University (France), Co-Director of the Law School’s Master Program of International Law, Director of the Summer School on Practice of Human Rights and Expert on reparations before the International Criminal Court. She is also a member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

Professor Tigroudja has conducted research and taught in various universities such as Science Po Law School (Paris), Ecole Nationale de l’administration (Paris), Brussels University, Abomey-Calavi University (Cotonou, Benin), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Universidad Catolica de Buenos Aires, and she has been a visiting professional at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. In July 2023, she delivered the course ‘Droit international des droits de l'homme et conflits armés’ at The Hague Academy of International Law.

Her focus in teaching and research ranges from international law, European law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and international migration law, with a special focus on comparative approaches of regional and universal human rights mechanisms. In 2022, she co-authored the book The American Convention on Human Rights. A Commentary (OUP).