Can International Law Deliver Justice for Ukraine? with Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy (ECHR)

In this episode of the Oxford Policy Pod, MPP student Marc Naro sits with Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy, Ukrainian Judge at the European Court of Human Rights. Judge Gnatovskyy was elected to the European Court of Human Rights in June 2022. He previously served as President of the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture, as an academic partner of the International Committee of the Red Cross, and as Associate Professor of International Law at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. The conversation addresses the functioning of the European Court of Human Rights and the role of a judge within it, the evolving case law on Russia's accountability following the judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia of July 2025, and the legal implications of Russia's expulsion from the Council of Europe in 2022. It also examines the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression established within the Council of Europe framework, the independence of international judges and the pressures they currently face, and the prospects for justice and reparation for the Ukrainian people.

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Can International Law Deliver Justice for Ukraine? with Judge Mykola Gnatovskyy (ECHR) is an episode from Oxford Policy Pod by Students at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University.

This episode is 50:35 long.

This episode was published on Apr 13, 2026.

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