Iva Pushkarova
Ass. Prof. Iva Pushkarova, PhD, teaches Criminal Law and International Criminal Law at the Sofia University ‘st. Clement of Ochrid’ and Criminal Law at the Ministry of Interior Academy.
She is an author of monograph studies and publications in the fields of organised crime, human trafficking, financial and economic crime, sexual exploitation, juvenile crime, violent crime, discrimination, crime-related and victim-related risk factors concerning children, system of punishments, including life imprisonment and profiling of the perpetrator of excessively grave crimes, case-law on gravest penalties, etc. (See, Publications)
Manager, expert and an author of numerous research and institutional projects aimed at development of justice and judiciary reform in Bulgaria, Croatia, Russian Federation and Macedonia, strengthening of the judicial protection of human rights and improvement of the professional qualification of legal professionals. In the past 9 years she had been affiliated both in expert and management capacity with the implementing organizations (among which Bulgarian Judges Association, the World Bank, Penal Reform International).
Iva Pushkarova also specialized history at the Sofia University and English and EU law at the Cambridge University.
A co-founder and President of the Managing Board of the Justice development Foundation.
She develops research projects, manages partnerships, conducts and manages researches in the fields of Criminal Law, develops training and research methodologies and conducts trainings of court experts, judges, prosecutors and police officers .