Clara Burbano Herrera

Clara Burbano Herrera is a Professor of Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, and Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at Ghent University (Belgium). Prof Dr Burbano-Herrera is also guest professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and affiliate research professor at the University of Bergen (Norway). Previously, she was a Fulbright Senior Researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (USA), and visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Germany).

Clara Burbano Herrera is a Professor of Human Rights Law at the Faculty of Law and Criminology, and Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context at Ghent University (Belgium). Prof Dr Burbano-Herrera is also guest professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and affiliate research professor at the University of Bergen (Norway). Previously, she was a Fulbright Senior Researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (USA), and visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Germany).

Clara holds a PhD in Law (Ghent University, Belgium), a Master after Master in Fundamental Rights, magna cum laude (University Carlos III, Spain), a Master after Master in Constitutional Law, first of the class, summa cum laude, best student award (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.

She is co-founder and Executive member of the Inter-American Human Rights Network, co-founder and co-Director of the Programme for Studies on Human Rights in Context, Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights in Context Blog, and Director and co-Host of the IMPACTUM in Context the Podcast.

The European Research Council awarded Clara an ERC Consolidator Grant Research project to analyse the impact of urgent measures adopted by human rights bodies to protect at risk detainees in six Latin-American countries (IMPACTUM) (2022-2027)