Viktoriya Gurash holds a PhD in Social Law from the Ivan Franko National University in Lviv (Ukraine) and an LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University (Netherlands). She also worked as a case-processing lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Since 1. May 2022 she has been working at the chair of Professor Keller. On 1. February 2026 she started a position as a postdoctoral researcher within the project "The Emergence of European Climate Rights" at Aarhus University, Department of Law.

Journal articles

Viktoriya Gurash, A Fresh Look at Margin of Appreciation through Climate Cases, European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, forthcoming in Spring 2025.

Helen Keller / Viktoriya Gurash, "Upping the Ante": Rethinking the Execution of Judgements of the European Court of Human Rights, European Human Rights Law Review 2023 149-155.

Helen Keller / Viktoriya Gurash, Expanding NGO's Standing: Climate Justice through Access to the European Court of Human Rights, Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 2023 194-218.

Book chapter

Helen Keller / Viktoriya Gurash, Proportionality of the Covid-19 Measures: The European Court of Human Rights' Approach, in: Julian März (ed.), Proportionality: A Guiding Principle in Public Health Law, Ethics and Policy, Oxford University Press, forthcoming in Fall 2025.