Dr Christian Delev joined the University of Bristol Law School as Lecturer in August 2023. He was an Associate Fellow of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada between 2021-2024. Dr Delev previously taught international law and European Union law at various colleges at the University of Cambridge, and coached the University of Cambridge Jessup team in 2020-2021. He was a visiting doctoral researcher during the Fall 2022 term at Harvard Law School.

Dr Delev’s research focuses on international economic law, the law of treaties, and international dispute settlement, drawing on doctrinal and economic approaches to legal research. His research has been published or is forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law, European Journal of Risk Regulation, World Trade Review, European Foreign Affairs Review, and the Journal of World Trade. His research on the intersection between trade and environmental protection law has also been published in a legal briefing series on EU-Latin America Free Trade Agreements run by the CISDL.

Dr Delev currently sits on the UK Trade and Sustainable Development Domestic Advisory Group as a representative of the Trade and Public Policy Network. 

Previously, he served as Managing Editor for the Cambridge International Law Journal (2020-2022) and Editorial Assistant for the Journal of International Economic Law (2022-2023). Dr Delev has also edited for the Review of European Administrative Law and the Groningen Journal of International Law. He assisted the chair of the United Kingdom Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC), Professor Lorand Bartels, during the TAC statutory review of the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement.

Dr Delev completed his PhD studies at St Catharine's College, University of Cambridge on the topic of “Figments of Fragmentation in International Trade Law: Examining the Interaction between WTO Law and Regional Trade Agreements”. He holds a first class LLM in international law from the University of Cambridge and graduated summa cum laude from the LLB International and European Law programme at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2021, he took the Hague Academy summer course in public international law.