Kate joined the Doctoral program after completing an LL.M. in Human Rights from CEU in 2020. Before that, she obtained LL.M. in International and European Law from the Riga Graduate School of Law in 2018.
Kate's primary research interests combine theories of international and human rights law, topics that engage both fields and address their challenges and tensions. Above all, she is focused on the workings of the legal notion of 'human dignity' in the context of international human rights law. In her doctoral project, Kate researches dignity jurisprudence of the three regional human rights courts in Europe, Africa, and the Americas under the supervision of Assoc. Prof. Markus Böckenförde. With her project, Kate hopes to contribute to dignity literature, where currently regional dignity jurisprudence has not been addressed as a means to measure the emerging consensus on the meaning and content of the notion 'human dignity' under international human rights law.
Before joining CEU, Kate was a research assistant at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna, and carried out internships at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Latvian Centre for Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia and Prague Security Studies Institute.
In 2022, Kate received the CEU Presidential Scholar Award.