Clara Burbano Herrera

Clara Burbano Herrera is a Professor of International Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University, the Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at Ghent University, and Principal Investigator, ERC Consolidator Grant 'IMPACTUM'.

Previously, she was a Fulbright Senior Researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the FXB Centre for Health and Human Rights (Harvard University, USA) and a Postdoctoral Researcher of the Flanders Research Foundation (FWO), Belgium.

Her research lies on the intersection between international law and human rights, and relates to the role of international human rights organs in the prevention of violation of human rights, with a particular focus on vulnerable groups.

Clara has lived and spent most of her academic life conducting socio-legal research in diverse countries. Clara 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).

With her research Clara has been awarded the Dutch Prince Bernhard Price for Innovative Research. Orcid ID