Ebba joined Essex Law School and Human Rights Centre in September 2021. She holds a PhD and
an LLM in International Human Rights Law, both from University of Essex, a BA in Jurisprudence/LLB
(Hons) from University of Oxford, and a BA in International and Comparative Politics from the
American University of Paris. Ebba's PhD thesis examined the applicability of existing legal
standards of reparation to domestic reparation programmes in transitional justice contexts. Her
main research interests and areas of expertise are reparation, transitional justice, international
criminal law, indigenous rights as well as international human rights law. Outside of academia,
Ebba has experience in the fields of EU policy, refugee law, and international criminal law. Before
returning to Essex for her PhD, Ebba worked as an international research fellow and EU policy
expert at Group for Legal and Political Studies, a local think tank in Prishtina, Kosovo, and as a case
officer/refugee status determination officer at the Swedish Migration Agency, interviewing asylum
seekers and writing decisions on asylum applications. She has also worked as a law clerk in the Trial
Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), where she assisted
the Chamber in the writing of the judgment in the Stanisic and Zupljanin case and in the pre-trial
phase of the Hadzic case. Ebba also spent some time at the International Criminal Court, working
in the Office of the Prosecutor, Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division, Situation
Analysis Section.