Current focus
Rights-compatible procedural vitality: ritualisation, bureaucratisation, institutional intelligibility, human oversight and AI-supported justice and grievance systems.
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Viktoriia Hamaiunova is a socio-legal scholar working across human rights, procedural justice, civil justice, mediation, legal culture and institutional design.
Socio-legal international law · Human rights
Her research is concerned with a deceptively simple question: what makes a legal or quasi-legal procedure genuinely capable of delivering justice, rather than merely appearing procedurally complete? She examines the institutional conditions under which rights such as access to justice, the right to a fair trial, meaningful participation and effective remedy remain substantive in practice, particularly as justice systems become more standardised, administratively complex and technologically mediated.
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A diagnostic methodology for identifying when formally compliant justice, grievance, integrity and remedy mechanisms retain their visible architecture but lose meaningful voice, contestability, professional judgement, effective remedy and institutional learning.
Research programme in active development
Examines how the institutional integration of mediation into judicial systems reshapes the contemporary meaning of the right to a fair trial under Article 6 ECHR.
Doctoral and continuing research
Defines rights-compatible guardrails for mandatory and court-connected mediation without hollowing out autonomy, access to court, procedural fairness or protection of vulnerable parties.
Examines how scalable feedback practices in mass postgraduate education can be redesigned without collapsing into mechanisation, exclusion or pedagogically thin models of assessment.
Continuing research · in development
A separate portfolio grouping for verified collaborative publications and policy research; it is not a fifth project.
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2026
Conflict Resolution Quarterly
2026
The International Journal of Human Rights 30(4), 767–786
2026
In Masood Ahmed and David Sixsmith (eds), The Place of Mediation within the Modern Civil Justice System: Critical Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing), 175–195
2023
Athens Journal of Law 9(4), 653–666