Drenik Bavdek, Simona
Drenik Bavdek, Simona
| Courses | EU law, European and International Economic Law, European Business Law |
She graduated cum laude at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana and holds LL.M. in International Law (with honourable mention) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the PhD (cum laude) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana.
She is an Assistant Head of the Centre for Human Rights and the Human Rights Ombudsman of the Republic of Slovenia. She is also a member of a Legal Working Group at the European Network of National Human Rights Institutions and of the International Law Association’s (ILA) Committee on the Rule of Law and International Investment Law. She also works as an expert with the Council of Europe.
Between September 2015 and the end of 2019 she worked at the Ministry of Justice, in the Department for Human Rights and Penal Law, where she was also a member of a Project Unit for a coordination of the enforcement of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.
Between 2000 and August 2015, she worked in Slovenian diplomacy; four years she was a head of International Law Department, four years a head of Project Unit for the Preparation of the Pleading before the Arbitral Tribunal and an agent of Slovenia before the arbitral tribunal. As a head or a member of diplomatic delegations she participated at numerous international and several intergovernmental meeting and conferences held under the auspices of the United Nations, the OSCE, the Council of Europe, the European Union and other international organizations, as well as in numerous negotiations on bilateral treaties. During the 2008 Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union she was leading a priority dossier on the Lisbon Treaty, and during the 2005 Slovenian OSCE Chairmanship she was leading the OSCE Human Dimension at the Permanent Representation of Slovenia in Vienna.
She was also a Rapporteur of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (2008-2011), a member of the Council of Europe Committee of Legal Advisers on Public International Law (CAHDI) and of several working groups of the Council of the European Union. She was also a member of a Committee on Baselines under the International Law of the Sea of the ILA (2008-2018) and of a Drafting Group on Civil Society and National Human Rights Institutions (CDDH-INST) of the Steering Committee on Human Rights of the Council of Europe.
In her work and research, she derives from the integration of theory and practice. She is the author of over 50 scientific or professional works.
