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Degrees

PhD in Law (University of Cambridge), LL.M Adv. in International Law (Universiteit Leiden), Magister Juris (Sofia University)

Research Interests

Rumiana's research interests lie in the area of general international law, particularly its sources and the responsibility of States, and the settlement of international disputes, as well as in international investment law, international human rights law 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. Rumiana is also interested in the international governance of science and new technologies in the field of biomedicine and global health law. 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 expert reports for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and the Council of Europe's Steering Committee for Human Rights in the fields of Biomedicine and Health. She practices as an Academic Door Tenant at Thomas More Chambers where she advises States and international organisations on issues of public international law. 

Teaching Interests

Rumiana lectures on the undergraduate course in International Law and the LL.M courses in International Investment Law, International Human Rights Law, EU External Relations, Global Governance and International Criminal Law. She supervises undergraduate students in International Law and European Union Law. 

Awards and Prizes

Jacobson Scholarship in International Law, St Catharine's College and AHRC doctoral scholarship and CRASSH Early Career Fellowship

Hague Academy Diploma in Public International Law cum laude (Hague Academy of International Law) 2009

Publications

The Public Policy of International Law: Communitarian Norms of International Law (monograph, CUP, forthcoming)

‘Anticipatory Duties under the Human Right to Science and in International Biomedical Law’ forthcoming in a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights 2023

‘Human Rights-Based Approaches to Health Care’ expert report for the Council of Europe’s Steering Committee for Human Rights in the Fields of Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) (June 2023)

'Article 27 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in International Investment Law and Arbitration' in M Waibel and A Kulick, Commentary on General International Law in International Investment Law (forthcoming, OUP, 2023)

‘The Right to Benefit from Science: What Implications for Big Health Data?’ (2020) 31:2 European Journal of International Law 665

‘Regulating Genome Editing: What Role for International Human Rights Law?’ (2020) 69:3 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 653

‘Gene Editing of Human Embryos is not Contrary to Human Rights Law: A Reply to Drabiak’ (2021) 35:9 Bioethics 956 co-authored with Andrea Boggio

R. Yotova, ‘The Regulation of Genome Editing and Human Reproduction under International Law, EU Law and Comparative Law’, Nuffield Council of Bioethics (2018) 

R. Yotova, ‘Integrating Environmental Considerations in the new EU Investment Agreements: A Brave New World?’ in Kate Miles (ed), Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law (Edward Elgar, 2018)

R. Yotova, ‘Compliance with Domestic Law: an Implicit Condition in Treaties Conferring Rights and Protections on Foreign Nationals?’ in J Klingler, Y Parkhomenko and C Salonidis (eds), Canons of Construction and Other Interpretative Principles in International Law (Wolters Kluwer, 2018) 

R. Yotova, ‘Opinion 2/15 of the CJEU: Delineating the Scope of the New EU Competence in Foreign Direct Investment’ (2018) 77:1 Cambridge Law Journal (February 2018)

R. Yotova, ‘Challenges in the Identification of “the General Principles of Law Recognized by Civilized Nations”: the Approach of the International Court’ (2017) 3:1 Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law 269

R. Yotova, ‘Balancing economic objectives and social considerations in the new EU Investment Agreements: commitments v realities’ in C Barnard et al (eds), A European Social Union after the Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

R. Yotova, ‘Arbitrating the Public Interest’ Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 2016, Vol. 110

R. Yotova, ‘Systemic Integration: an Instrument for Reasserting the State’s Control Over Investment Arbitration?’ in Andreas Kulick (ed), States’ Reassertion of Control over International Investment Agreements and International Investment Treaty Dispute Settlement (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

R. Yotova, ‘The Principles of Due Diligence and Prevention in International Environmental Law’ (2016) 75:3 Cambridge Law Journal 445

R. Yotova & E. Nanopoulos ‘Repackaging Plain Packaging in Europe: Public Interest Considerations and Strategic Litigation’ (2016) 19:1 Journal of International Economic Law 175

R. Yotova, ‘The New EU Competence in Foreign Direct Investment and Intra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties: Does the Emperor Have New Clothes?’,  in F. Baetens (ed), Investment Law within International Law: An Integrationist Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2013)

R. Yotova & F. Baetens, ‘The Abyei Arbitration: A Model Procedure for Intra-State Dispute Settlement in Resource-Rich Conflict Areas?’ (2011) 3:1 Goettingen Journal of International Law 417

Other Interests

Hiking, board games, amateur photography