Dr Rumiana Yotova

Rumiana lectures on the undergraduate course in International Law and the LL.M courses in International Investment Law, International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law. She supervises undergraduate students in International Law and European Union Law. Her research interests lie in the area of general international law, particularly its sources, the responsibility of States, and the settlement of international disputes, as well as in international investment law, international human rights law, EU external relations and the nascent field of international biomedical law.

Rumiana's publications center around the communitarian norms of international law and their legal effects, which are the topic of her monograph. She is also interested in the international governance of science and new technologies in the field of biomedicine. She has published on the right to benefit from science, the international regulation of human germline editing and the anticipatory duties of States in the fields of human rights. Rumiana wrote an expert report for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics on the international regulation of germline editing and another one on human-rights based approaches to healthcare for the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health. Rumiana practices as an Academic Door Tenant at Thomas More Chambers where she advises States and international organisations on issues of public international law. She acts as counsel in international cases before the International Court of Justice and investment tribunals.

Rumiana completed her PhD in Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. James Crawford and worked with him as Research Associate on cases before the ICJ, CJEU, the US Supreme Court and arbitral tribunals. Prior to this, she spent time at the Secretariat of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the European Commission in Brussels and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Rumiana did her Magister Juris at the University of Sofia, an LL.M Advanced in International Law at Leiden University and was awarded the Hague Academy Diploma in International Law cum laude. She was a founder and editor-in-chief of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (now Cambridge International Law Journal). Rumiana is a fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, a member of the Centre for European Legal Studies and the Cambridge Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences.