Ivana Isailović isassistant professor of EU Law. Her work sits at the intersection of law, critical theory, gender studies, and political economy. Her ongoing research focuses on how law creates inequalities across contexts, economies, and private and public legal fields. Her forthcoming book (in French, with Actes Sud) examines the interplay between neoliberal governance and feminism.

Her work has been published in leading law journals including the American Journal of Comparative Law, Yale Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of European Law and McGill Law Journal. She is a member of the editorial board of the Transnational Legal Theory journal and has served as a reviewer for the Transnational Legal Theory and the American Journal of Comparative Law journals, among others.

She was the academic coordinator of the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) interdisciplinary research project (from 2021-2025) for which she was the main organizer of about twenty academic events on law, political economy, sustainability and (in)equalities at UvA, including of the project's Summer School. 

Prior to joining UvA, she was co-leading the project on Gender & Private International Law at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, she was a visiting scholar, and taught in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program at Northeastern University, at MIT and at the Northeastern School of Law. She was a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and she also held appointments at NYU School of Law (Emile Noël Fellow) at McGill Faculty of Law (Boulton Fellow) and at the Free University of Brussels where she helped create the Equality Law Clinic.

Ivana presented her research at various institutions in North America and in Europe, including Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, Northeastern Law School, McGill Law School, University of Torino Faculty of Law, European University Institute, Bocconi Law School, SOAS University and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. 

She holds a PhD in law from Sciences Po Paris, a Master's degree in International Public Law from Sorbonne University, and a degree in Global Business Law and Governance - a joint program between Columbia Law School, Sorbonne University, and Sciences Po Paris.