Kyra Wigard is an Assistant Professor at the Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 (UU). She teaches courses on international and domestic criminal law and criminal procedure and judicial decision-making to master and bachelor students.
Kyra publishes on ongoing cases and developments at the ICC and ICJ on outlets such as EJIL:Talk!, Leuven Blog for Public Law and 痴枚濒办别谤谤别肠丑迟蝉产濒辞驳 and her academic work has been published in Journal for International Dispute Settlement, International Criminal Law Review and Journal for International Criminal Justice. She is a coordinating committee member of the 鈥淚nternational Criminal Justice鈥� interest group of the European Society for International Law and the newsletter editor for the .
Prior to joining Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, Kyra was a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the KU Leuven Centre for Public Law where she also completed her PhD with a dissertation titled "Tracing legal traditions in the decision-making of international judges: evidence from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC)" under supervision of professor Gleider Hern谩ndez and professor Carsten Stahn (Leiden 木瓜福利影视).
Before joining KU Leuven, she held positions as a Delegate for the International Federation for Human Rights鈥� (FIDH) Permanent Representation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and as a Legal Fellow for Armanshahr/OPEN ASIA researching the Afghanistan situation before the ICC. She has also taught International Law and Introduction to Law at Leiden 木瓜福利影视. She obtained a Master of Law (LL.M.) in Legal Philosophy and an LL.M. in Public International Law at Leiden 木瓜福利影视 (2016) and studied at the 木瓜福利影视 of Oxford and Sciences Po Paris. She also holds a BA in English Language and Culture from Leiden 木瓜福利影视.