Graduates – 2023

Doctoral students discharged and those who defended their dissertations at the Institute for the State and the Law in 2023:

Doctoral students discharged in 2023

1. Yordanka Nikolova – part-time doctoral student, doctoral programme "Civil and Family Law", enrolled from 01.10.2018, scientific supervisor Assoc. Prof. Velina Todorova, PhD, dissertation topic "Parentage and Surrogate Motherhood. Problems and Solutions", discharged with the right to defend, effective 22.02.2023.

2. Marieta Dineva-Palazova – part-time doctoral student, doctoral programme "Civil and Family Law", enrolled on 01.01.2019, scientific supervisor Prof. Ventsislav Stoyanov, PhD, dissertation topic "The Right of Superstructure", discharged with the right to defend, effective 22.02.2023.

3. Sevim Mahmud – part-time doctoral student, doctoral programme "Legal Sociology. Legal Informatics", enrolled on 01.01.2017, scientific supervisor Prof. Nadezhda Yonkova, PhD, dissertation topic "Legal-Sociological Parameters of Hate Speech as a Manifestation of Social Deviance", discharged without the right to defend, effective 08.03.2023.

4. Milka Todorova-Dobrikova – part-time doctoral student, doctoral programme "International Law and International Relations", enrolled on 01.01.2019, scientific supervisor Prof. Irena Ilieva, PhD, dissertation topic "International Law Problems of Radicalisation and the Recruitment of Foreign Terrorist Fighters", discharged with the right to defend, effective 08.03.2023.

5. Maria Ovsepyan – doctoral student in an independent form of study, doctoral programme "Legal Sociology. Legal Informatics", enrolled on 01.10.2020, scientific consultant Prof. Nadezhda Yonkova, PhD, dissertation topic "Extrajudicial Means of Protecting Human Rights in Armenia. Comparative Law Aspects", discharged with the right to defend, effective 01.10.2023.

6. Aleksandra Nanova – part-time doctoral student, enrolled on 01.01.2020, doctoral programme "Criminal Procedure", scientific supervisor Prof. Gergana Marinova, PhD, dissertation topic "Mandatory Defence in Bulgarian Criminal Procedure", discharged with the right to defend, effective 01.11.2023.

7. Spas Spasov – full-time doctoral student, doctoral programme "Civil and Family Law", enrolled from 01.10.2019, scientific supervisor Prof. Veselina Kanatova-Buchkova, PhD, dissertation topic "Coercive Administrative Measures", discharged with the right to defend, effective 08.12.2023.

Doctoral students who defended before a Scientific Jury of the ISL in 2023

1. Yoanna Shuleva – part-time doctoral student, enrolled on 01.01.2019, scientific supervisor Prof. Darina Zinovieva, PhD, dissertation topic "Preliminary References to the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Administrative Proceedings of the Republic of Bulgaria", received five positive assessments at a public defence held on 10.03.2023.

2. Byulent Mehmed – part-time doctoral student, enrolled on 01.10.2015, scientific supervisor Prof. Veselina Kanatova-Buchkova, PhD, dissertation topic "Administrative Law Status of People with Specific Social Problems", received five positive assessments at a public defence held on 25.04.2023.

3. Petya Stoyanova – part-time doctoral student, enrolled on 01.10.2015, scientific supervisor Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Todorov Kolev, PhD, dissertation topic "The Consumer Credit Contract", received five positive assessments at a public defence held on 10.05.2023.

4. Petar Topurov – full-time doctoral student, enrolled on 01.01.2017, scientific supervisor Assoc. Prof. Valchin Zdravkov Daskalov, PhD, dissertation topic "Legal Position of the Beneficiary under a Contract for the Benefit of a Third Party", received five positive assessments at a public defence held on 27.06.2023.

5. Vladislav Datsov – part-time doctoral student, enrolled from 01.10.2021, scientific supervisor Assoc. Prof. Valchin Daskalov, PhD, dissertation topic "Unilateral Assumption of a Civil Law Obligation", received five positive assessments at a public defence held on 27.06.2023.