Elena 
PRIBYTKOVA

 
Post-Doctoral Fellow

Elena Pribytkova received a J.S.D. degree from Columbia Law School and a Ph.D. degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research focuses on the role of human rights in reducing poverty and inequality as well as in promoting social and global justice, and sustainable development. Elena held various appointments at leading universities and research institutes, including University of Oxford, European University Institute, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, Columbia Law School, and New York University School of Law. She has more than fifty publications in English, German, French, and Russian.

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Contact

elena.pribytkova@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6601-1096
TB-08-01E

Education

JSD (Columbia Law School); PhD (Russian Academy of Sciences); Specialist in Law (St. Petersburg State University)

Elena Pribytkova received a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) degree from Columbia Law School and a Candidate of Legal Sciences (Ph.D.) degree from the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is a Habilitation candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Basel. She has worked extensively on individual and collective multidisciplinary research projects on theories of justice, human dignity, law and morality, governance, and human rights, in particular, socio-economic rights and their role in reducing poverty and inequality as well as in promoting social and global justice, and sustainable development. Elena held various research and teaching appointments at leading universities and research institutes all over the world, including University of Oxford, European University Institute, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg University, Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, University of Basel, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Columbia Law School, and New York University School of Law. She has more than fifty publications in English, German, French, and Russian.

Edited Books

Elena Pribytkova and Gottfried Schweiger (eds), In Search for a Social Minimum: Human Dignity, Poverty and Human Rights (Springer, forthcoming 2021)

Journal Articles

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Are There Global Obligations to Assist in the Realization of Socio-Economic Rights?’ (Forthcoming 2021) 54 N.Y.U. Journal of International Law & Politics

Elena Pribytkova, ‘What Global Human Rights Obligations Do We Have?’ (2020) 20 The Chicago Journal of International Law 384

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Global Obligations for Sustainable Development: Harmonizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and International Human Rights Law’ (2020) 41 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 1031

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Unconditional Basic Income or a Decent Social Minimum?’ (2015) 4 RphZ Rechtsphilosophie 377

Elena Pribytkova, ‘The Human Right to a Dignified Existence: The Ethical Foundations of the Contemporary Legal Order’ (2013) 137 Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie – Beiheft 117

Elena Pribytkova, ‘“The Minimum Content of Natural Law” – H.L.A. Hart’s Project to Reconcile Natural Law and Legal Positivism?’ (2013) 1 Zeitschrift für Rechtsphilosophie 3

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Personality, Person, Subject in Russian Legal Philosophy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century’, (2009) 61 Studies in East European Thought 209

Book Chapters

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Extraterritorial Obligations in the United Nations System: U.N. Treaty-Based Bodies’, in Mark Gibney et al. (eds) Research Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Routledge, forthcoming 2021)

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Human Dignity and a Decent Social Minimum: Human Rights Guarantees Beyond the Absolute Core?’, in Elena Pribytkova and Gottfried Schweiger (eds), In Search for a Social Minimum: Human Dignity, Poverty and Human Rights (Springer, forthcoming 2021)

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Territorial and Extraterritorial Obligations to Ensure a Decent Social Minimum’ in Toomas Kotkas et al. (eds) The Battle against Poverty: Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum (Hart Publishing 2019) 129

Elena Pribytkova, ‘Protection from Extreme Poverty in the European Court of Human Rights’ in Helmut P. Gaisbauer et al. (eds) Absolute Poverty in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon (Policy Press 2019) 335

Elena Pribytkova, ‘A Decent Social Minimum as a Matter of Justice’, in Helmut P. Gaisbauer et al. (eds) Ethical Issues in Poverty Alleviation (Springer 2016) 43


  • Human Rights Law
  • Public International Law
  • Transnational Law
  • Legal and Political Philosophy
  • Global Governance
  • Sustainable Development
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