Evhen Tsybulenko (Ukrainian: Євген Цибуленко, b. 21. October 1972 in Simferopol, Ukraine) is an Estonian legal scholar of Ukrainian descent. He is professor of law at the Tallinn University of Technology and Kyiv International University and is focused on International Humanitarian Law.
Tsybulenko graduated from Kyiv National University in 1996 as LL.M. and obtained PhD in International Law in 2000. He has conducted postdoctoral research at the International Human Rights Law Institute of De Paul University in Chicago during 2002, and has worked at the International Committee of the Red Cross and in Kyiv International University.
He was a founder and director of the Tallinn Law School Human Rights Centre during 2007–2014 and was elected as professor of law in 2005. Tsybulenko had been appointed as a Chair of International and Comparative Law department but due to the reorganisation of departments in 2010 International and Comparative Law department was closed. He has been an adjunct (visiting) professor and senior visiting mentor of Joint Command and General Staff Course (JCGSC) at Baltic Defence College.
Tsybulenko is an external expert of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Estonian Red Cross, Estonian Integration Commission, Directorate-General for Education and Culture of European Commission and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Tsybulenko also gives lectures at Warsaw International Humanitarian Law (IHL) International Summer Academy, Baltic Summer Academy, and Commonwealth of Independent States Summer School on IHL.
Tsybulenko has published more than 40 scientific books and articles as well as more than 400 general-interest articles, comments and interviews. Publications are primarily in English, Ukrainian and Russian. His articles and interviews has been translated to 25 languages such as Estonian, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, etc.
Tsybulenko has taken also part on drafting laws e.g. he participated on preparation of a law concerning the protection of Red Cross and Red Crescent symbols in Ukraine as well as has provided assistance on a bill at Estonian Parliament to define Russia's war in Ukraine as genocide against Ukrainians.
Цибуленко Євген Миколайович. Міжнародно-правове регулювання застосування звичайних озброєнь: Дис… канд. юрид. наук: 12.00.11 / Київський ун-т ім. Тараса Шевченка. Інститут міжнародних відносин. — К., 1999. — 184 л. — Бібліогр.: л.166–182.
Tsybulenko, E.; Mesila, L. (2025) Interaction of EU and EU Member State Laws in Relation to Frozen Russian Assets. In: LEX PORTUS, 11(3), pp. 36-52.
Tsybulenko, E.; Diaz, E. (2024) The treaty of Spitzbergen: Problems and solutions for an Arctic future. In: Bevz, S.; Podolyak, S.; Sydorenko, V. (Ed.). Challenges and legal support of the economy in the conditions of digitalization. Lira-K, Kyiv, pp. 101-111.
Tsybulenko, E.; Rinta-Pollari, H. (2023) Legal Challenges in Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression in the Russo-Ukrainian War. In: Review of Central and East European Law, 48 (3–4), pp. 319–350.
Tsybulenko E., Kajander A. (2022) Customary International Humanitarian Law and Article 36 of Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions: A Stopgap Regulator of Autonomous Weapons Systems? In: TalTech Journal of European Studies, 12 (2), pp. 87–112.
Tsybulenko, E.; Platonova, A. (2022) Legal Instruments of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: A Case of Missed Opportunities? In: Sayapin S., Burnashev R. (Eds.). Central Asian Yearbook of International Law and International Relations. Volume 1. Eleven, The Hague, pp. 244–257.
Tsybulenko, E. (2022). Blinding Laser Weapons. In: Sayapin, S. et al. (Eds.). International Conflict and Security Law. T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer, The Hague, pp. 367–378.
Tsybulenko, E. (2022). Fuel air explosive weapons. In: Sayapin, S. et al. (Eds.). International Conflict and Security Law. T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer, The Hague, pp. 379–388.
Tsybulenko, E.; Platonova, A. (2022). Current Issues of Hague Law. In: Sayapin, S. et al. (Eds.). International Conflict and Security Law. T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer, The Hague, pp. 389–397.
Tsybulenko, E.; Suarez, S. (2022). INTERPOL. In: Sayapin, S. et al. (Eds.). International Conflict and Security Law. T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer, The Hague, pp. 673–691.
Tsybulenko E., Kajander A. (2021) The Hybrid Arsenal of Russia’s War Against the Democratic World. In: Mölder H., Sazonov V., Chochia A., Kerikmäe T. (eds) The Russian Federation in Global Knowledge Warfare. Contributions to International Relations. Springer, Cham. pp. 173–194.
Tsybulenko E., Tetera, I. (2021) Occupation of Crimea and military invasion of Donbas: International law and responsibility of the Russian Federation. In: Lodyn, P. (ed) Surviving near the empire: Price of the modern Kremlin's aggression. GOTsPND/IWP, Ivano-Frankivsk, pp. 152–182.