Biography
Dr Liana Minkova is a Teaching Associate at the Department of POLIS, a fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a former Junior Research Fellow in Law at Newnham College. She holds a PhD in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge. Her PhD research project received a full funding award from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Doctoral Training Partnership programme. She previously completed an MPhil in International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a BA in international politics at King’s College London. Liana has worked as a research assistant at the University of Cambridge and at King’s College London and delivered lectures on international law and international relations at Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ and the American University in Bulgaria.
Research
Liana’s research explores accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance, including state responsibility, civil liability, and the proposed criminalisation of ecocide under international criminal law. Specifically, her research looks at the exchange of ideas between legal experts in the process of constructing narratives around accountability mechanisms and the purposes they serve in preventing and compensating environmental harm. Liana has also conducted research on the concept of individual criminal responsibility in international law, the boundaries of ‘culpability’ for mass atrocities, and the practices associated with the assessment of guilt and innocence at international courts and tribunals.
Publications
Book
L. Minkova, Responsibility on Trial: Liability Standards in International Criminal Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), URL: www.cambridge.org/core/books/responsibility-on-trial/8F9B09119F016E9EFDA3565E004D73DA#fndtn-information
Articles
L. Minkova, ‘Ecocide, Sustainable Development and Critical Environmental Law Insights’, (2024), Journal of International Criminal Justice, 22(1), 81-97, URL: https://academic.oup.com/jicj/article/22/1/81/7698934
L. Minkova, ‘A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities’, (2024), Law & Social Inquiry, 49(1), 509-536, URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge core/content/view/EB8FCD11618D4E9BEDB6E946D0B75292/S0897654622000879a.pdf/a-battle-of-ideas-modes-of-liability-and-mass-atrocities.pdf
A. Gwiazda and L. Minkova, ‘Gendered Advocacy Coalitions and the Istanbul Convention: A Comparative Analysis of Bulgaria and Poland’, (2024), International Feminist Journal of Politics, 26(1), 31-53, URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14616742.2023.2214566?needAccess=true
L. Minkova, ‘The Fifth International Crime: Reflections on the Definition of ‘Ecocide’’, (2023), Journal of Genocide Research, 25(1), 62-83, URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/14623528.2021.1964688?needAccess=true
A. Branch and L. Minkova, ‘Ecocide, the Anthropocene, and the International Criminal Court’, (2023), Ethics & International Affairs, 37(1), 51-79, URL:https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/1E3BFF72636338093398729B65B62CE2/S0892679423000059a.pdf/ecocide-the-anthropocene-and-the-international-criminal-court.pdf
L. Minkova, ‘Control over the Theory: Discussing the ICC’s Approach to Establishing Commission Liability’, (2022), International Criminal Law Review, 22(3), 510-538, URL:https://brill.com/view/journals/icla/22/3/article-p510_005.xml?language=en&ebody=pdf-117260
L. Minkova, ‘(In)Compatible Visions of Justice? Personal Culpability and Gender Justice at the ICC’, (2022), Politics & Gender 18(1), 62-94, URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-gender/article/incompatible-visions-of-justice-personal-culpability-and-gender-justice-at-the-icc/A0FDCB6F42020DB9F03936B9E3E56A0F
L. Minkova, ‘Expressing What? The Stigmatization of the Defendant and ICC’s Institutional Interests in the Ongwen Case’, (2021), Leiden Journal of International Law 34(1), 223-245, URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/leiden-journal-of-international-law/article/expressing-what-the-stigmatization-of-the-defendant-and-the-iccs-institutional-interests-in-the-ongwen-case/8FB53350C9287D07FB70617C4880E5F6
Reviews and essays
L. Minkova, ‘Unspectacular Atrocities and the Aesthetics of International Trials’, (2024), Law & Social Inquiry 49(2), 1267-1273, URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-social-inquiry/article/unspectacular-atrocities-and-the-aesthetics-of-international-trials/CCC1C619FD42F92D8EA884703AE400B6
L. Minkova, ‘Jim Freedman, A Conviction in Question: The First Trial at the International Criminal Court’, Book Review, (2018), Journal of International Criminal Justice 16(3), 675-676, URL: https://academic.oup.com/jicj/article/16/3/675/5091584
