Dr Eliana Cusato joined Tilburg Law School in May 2026 as an Associate Professor of international law. Before that, Eliana was an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law, and a member of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (2023-2026).

Eliana’s research examines how international law, in theory and practice, deals with the interrelation of global inequalities, violence, and ecological destruction. In her work, Eliana draws upon a variety of intellectual traditions, including decolonial theory, black and feminist studies, and law and political economy approaches. She is the author of The Ecology of War and Peace: Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law published in 2021 with Cambridge University Press (also available in paperback since 2024).

Eliana holds a Ph.D. in Law from the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she was a recipient of the NUS Doctoral Research Scholarship, an LLB and LLM from the Catholic University in Milan. She has held visiting positions at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and the European University Institute in Florence. Eliana is a member of the editorial board of the Leiden Journal of International Law (International Legal Theory section).

From 2020 to 2022, Eliana was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at UvA, where she worked on the ERC-funded research project 'Resource Wars in an Unequal World' (REWA). In 2021, she was awarded the Young Scholar Prize of the European Society of International Law. Prior to that, Eliana was a lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Essex (UK). Before entering academia, she practiced as a lawyer in Milan specialising in white-collar and environmental crimes, and interned at the International Criminal Court.