Viviana Krsticevic

Viviana Krsticevic, LL.B. from the University of Buenos Aires, M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, and LL.M. from Harvard Law School.

She has litigated extensively on behalf of victims of human rights violations in Latin America. She has appeared before the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights arguing pioneering cases on the legal framework for accountability, gender-based violence, civic space, victims’ rights, indigenous peoples, reparations, and social and economic rights. She has helped shape international human rights standards in key areas through her litigation, advocacy, and writing. Ms. Krsticevic has intervened as amicus curiae before numerous national courts in the Americas, as well as regional human rights tribunals including the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the European Court on Human Rights.

Ms. Krsticevic regularly teaches at American University Washington School of Law, through its Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and at Saint Thomas University through the Master of Laws in Intercultural Human Rights. She has also taught, lectured, and participated in conferences at universities and think tanks through the Americas, and Europe. She has participated in several conferences and has done research at the Max Planck Institute on Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Ms. Krsticevic has published extensively on human rights and international law.

She is currently the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), a civil society organization that works throughout the Americas to promote human rights using international law and the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights. Ms. Krsticevic is also a member of the drafting committee of the international protocol on investigation of threats against human rights defenders launched in 2021, known as the La Esperanza Protocol. She is also a founder and member of the Gqual Campaign, a global initiative to promote gender parity in international representation.