Ivana Isailović is Assistant Professor of EU law and the academic coordinator of the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) interdisciplinary research project. Her research sits at the intersection of law, gender studies, critical theory and political economy. Her ongoing research examines the interplay between law, political economy and gender based inequalities in global contexts.

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.

As the academic coordinator the SGEL project she has been 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 (2019-2020), she was a visiting scholar in the Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies program (WGSS) at Northeastern University (2019-20) a lecturer at MIT where she taught seminars on gender and, identity and multiculturalism in France (Spring 2020) and a visiting scholar at the Northeastern School of Law (2018-2020). She was also a visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2017-18) a lecturer at Northeastern Law School where she taught a seminar on comparative family law (2018) and a lecturer in the WGSS program (Gender, Social Justice and Transnational Activism seminar, 2018). She also held appointments at NYU School of Law (Emile Noël Fellow, 2016-17) at McGill Faculty of Law (Boulton Fellow, 2015-16) where she taught the seminar 'Social Diversity and Law' 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, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, McGill Law School, University of Torino Faculty of Law, 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 (2014), a Master's degree in International Public Law from Sorbonne University (2007-08) and a degree in Global Business Law and Governance (2008-09) - a joint program between Columbia Law School, Sorbonne University, and Sciences Po Paris.