Bunafsha Gulakova

PhD Candidate, International Criminal Law
Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: b.gulakova1nuigalway.ie

PhD Research Topic :

Sliding scale’ of individual responsibility for crimes in international criminal  law

This research will examine evolving notions of individual responsibility in international criminal law particularly, in the extent to which tribunals applying international law have assigned differing degrees of responsibility to persons who commit different categories of crimes, and to persons who carry out different functions towards the commission of the same categories of crimes.

Ms. Bunafsha Gulakova is a native of Tajikistan and law school graduate of the Tajik State National University, a former Public Interest Law Fellow at the Law School of Columbia University in the City of New York, USA and also holds a Master of Studies degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford, UK.

She commenced practising law in 1995 in Dushanbe as an trial attorney with the international law firm Contract, working in the field of criminal defence representing the rights of the vulnerable, underprivileged and political detainees.

Ms. Gulakova was one of the founders and formerly the Director of the Bureau on Human Rights and Rule of Law in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, an NGO which initiated the provision of free legal assistance to vulnerable groups in the country in 1998. Under her supervision the Bureau became one of the most prominent non-profit legal defence organizations which succeeded in applying international mechanisms of human rights defence such as ICCPR, CRC, CEDWA and CERD for the benefit of the citizens of Tajikistan.

Ms. Gulakova furthered her international experience by providing her legal expertise to projects with institutions including the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the European Commission, International Development Law Organization (IDLO) in its Mission to Afghanistan, UNDP Iraq and most recently Institute for Justice Sector Development as a Legal Advisor.

Ms. Gulakova was awarded the title of Personnalité d'Avenir”  by the French Foreign Ministry. She was also honoured by being awarded: an International Bar Association Scholarship for Young Professionals (London, 2005); an OSI/ Chevening Scholarship for Further Studies in Law (Oxford, 2003-2005); and, a Justice Initiative Scholarship for post-graduate studies in law (2002).

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