Pushkar Pavlo

Is a head of division at the Department for the Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe.

The Department’s mandate covers advice to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe as regards measures to be taken by states under the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights. He is a member of the Secretary General’s Task Force on Freedom of Expression. He has worked at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights from 2002 to 2016 as a senior lawyer and a non-judicial rapporteur. Before joining the Council of Europe, he worked as an advocate in the areas of international litigation, arbitration, criminal procedure and as a public servant at the Supreme Court of Ukraine. Mr Pushkar has a PhD in criminal justice and is an advocate admitted to practice in Ukraine. He is a graduate of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University Law Faculty (BA and MA in Laws, with honours); the Nottingham University School of Law (LLM in International Law); Queens Mary College University of London (International Dispute Settlement). He is currently pursuing his research in the area of international law compliance at the Max Planck Institute of European Procedural Law in Luxembourg. His professional and personal research interests concern issues of interaction of freedom of expression with other rights under the European Human Rights Convention, including right to a fair hearing, as well as access to information and safety of journalists and journalistic sources.