Clara Sandoval is a Professor at the School of Law and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex (currently on leave), a founding member of the Essex Transitional Justice Network at Essex, and the Director of Programmes at the Global Survivors Fund, a multistakeholder fund established by Dr Mukwege and Nadia Murat, Nobel Peace Prize laureates (2018), to enable reparation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
She is an expert in transitional justice, the Inter-American System of Human Rights, reparations, and implementation of human rights orders.
Professor Sandoval has published widely on transitional justice and reparations. She is the co-author of the book “Reparations for Victims of Armed Conflicts”, (Third volume of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, edited by Anne Peters and Christian Marxsen, CUP, 2020).
She has been leading the work of the Fund in Ukraine for the set up of urgent interim reparation for survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.