Borys Babin

Doctor of Law, Professor.

In 2002, he graduated with honours from the Odesa Institute of Internal Affairs with a degree in law. In 2005, he defended his PhD thesis in constitutional law, and in 2013, he defended his doctoral thesis in international law. In 2008, he was promoted to Associate Professor at the Department of Constitutional and International Law, and in 2013 to Professor at the Department of Administrative and Criminal Law.

In 1998-2005, he served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2005-2008, he taught at the Donetsk Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and in 2008-2015 – at the Odesa National Maritime Academy, holding teaching positions from lecturer to head of the department.

In 2015, he was appointed Government Agent for the European Court of Human Rights, and then – Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Since 2015, he has been conducting research activities at the Institute of Legislation of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

He is a member of the Ukrainian Association of International Law. Since 2016, he has been representing individuals and legal entities in the European Court of Human Rights. He has received commendations from a number of international organisations for his active work in the field of human rights and indigenous peoples’ rights. He has prepared more than 40 submissions to UN Special Rapporteurs and Working Groups and UN bodies on indigenous peoples’ issues on environmental challenges.

During 2006-2023, he participated in the expert and human rights activities of the Crimean Indigenous Peoples Research and Support Foundation, the Crimean Tatar Resource Centre, the Association for the Reintegration of Crimea of the Ukrainian Independent Maritime Trade Union, in particular related to the study of challenges and threats to environmental rights, the right to development, and the rights of indigenous peoples, and carried out human rights and public work in Ukraine and in international organisations.

He has been engaged as an ad hoc legal expert by the International Labour Organization on the Maritime Labour Convention, in particular in the area of sanitary standards, by the Council of Europe on the rights of internally displaced persons, in particular on sustainable development, and by the OSCE on the legal regime of the Caspian Sea and the impact of hydrological works on the environment of the Danube Delta. He has been a member of public councils at the Ministry of Social Policy of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Maritime Inspectorate and the Ukrainian State Service for Transport Safety, which dealt with specific environmental issues.

Author of more than 200 scientific publications, including more than 100 articles in professional journals and 30 in foreign journals, many of which are devoted to collective rights, the right to sustainable development, and the issue of qualifying ecocide.