PSVF Fellow: Tamar Ruseishvili (LL.M. ’25)

International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)

Brussels (Belgium)

Tamar Ruseishvili will join IPHR’s Ukraine Sanctions Initiative as a PSVF Fellow, designing legal pathways to transform frozen Russian assets into reparations for Ukraine and strengthening sanctions-based accountability for wartime atrocities. She will draft designation requests, prepare strategic memoranda on asset management, and coordinate advocacy with Kyiv-based partners and European institutions.

At Harvard Law School, Tamar served as Managing Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, Research Assistant with the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Project Leader for HLS Advocates for Human Rights, and a Student Attorney on the International Human Rights Clinic’s Ukraine Project. Under Professor Gabriella Blum’s supervision, her LL.M. research explored the role of economic sanctions within international public order.

Prior to Harvard, Tamar served as a Legal Adviser in Georgia’s State Representation to International Courts. She helped secure the 2021 Georgia v. Russia (II) just-satisfaction judgment for over 25,500 victims of the 2008 war and, in 2023, worked on litigation efforts on behalf of more than 5,000 civilians in Georgia v. Russia (IV) before the European Court of Human Rights. She holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees in Public International Law (magna cum laude) from Tbilisi State University and has taught international law at Tbilisi State University and the University of Georgia.