Staff profile
Mr Kristiyan Stoyanov
PhD Candidate

Affiliation |
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PhD Candidate in the Durham Law School |
PhD Student in the Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy |
PhD candidate in Durham CELLS (Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences) |
Biography
Kristiyan is a Teaching Fellow in Corporate and Commercial Law as well as PhD candidate at Durham Law School. His research interests lie in International Economic Law, International Environmental Law, and EU Law.
Conferences
2022 July, Durham Law School, UK
• Speaker and primary organiser of workshop Interplay between EU Law and International Law
• Presentation title: The legal relationship between the EU and the WTO – should WTO law continue to be the ‘odd’ one in future?
• Guest speakers: Josephine Norris, Legal Service - European Commission; Antonios Antoniadis, Legal Service – Council; Nicolaj Kuplewatzky Référendaire – CJEU; Chaired by Robert Schütze (Professor of European and Global Law - Durham University)
2022 June, Ustinov College Annual Conference (Durham University)
• Presentation title: Durham Law School Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee
2022 June, 11th Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics Network of the Society of International Economic Law (University of Birmingham)
• Presentation title: Legal Effect of WTO law in the EU: Past, Present, Future
2022 June, Book presentation of Prof. dr. Anna-Alexandra Marhold, Energy in International Trade Law: Concepts, Regulation and Changing Markets (CUP, 2021) at Durham Law School
• Organiser and book discussant
2018 February, Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria in London
• Invited to speak on a conference at the Bulgarian Embassy in London organised by the University of Cambridge CantaBulgarian Society. Presentation title: Rule of Law in the EU: Council and Commission
MJur
Kristiyan's 48,383-word long MJur thesis examined the enforcement of WTO law in the EU and the US in order to determine if the EU is the odd one. He officially completed the MJur on 20/04/2020.
Examiners: Prof. dr. Stephen Weatherill (Jacques Delors Professor of European Law, University of Oxford) and Dr. Federico Lupo-Pasini (Associate Professor in Commercial and Corporate Law, Durham University)
PhD
Policy space for government support to renewable energy subsidies under WTO law
Krisityan's PhD is supported by a merit-based Durham Law School Scholarship (2021-4)
Teaching
Research interests
- EU Law, in particular State Aid; Constitutional; External Relations
- International Environmental Law
- International Trade Law
Publications
Book review
Conference Paper
Journal Article
Other (Print)