EMILIA KANDEVA-SPIRIDONOVA

1. EDUCATION

SOFIA UNIVERSITY “St. Kliment OHRIDSKI”, School of Law, Sofia, Bulgaria, B. A. 1960, J.D. 1962, Law.

SOFIA UNIVERSITY “St. Kliment OHRIDSKI”, School of Law, Sofia, Advanced degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. in Legal and State Sciences), 1971.

UNIVERSITY OF LEYDEN, The Netherlands, Leyden-Amsterdam-Columbia Program in American Law, Leyden Session, 1974.

UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, Japan, International Training Seminar on the Handling of Documentation and Information on Human Rights, 1988.

2. PROFESSIONAL/OCCUPATIONAL EXPERIENCE

1995 - Present: Professor of Administrative Law , Head of the Department of Public Legal Studies, and Dean (since November 1998), Law School, Burgas Free University;

1988 - Present: Professor of Public Law, Institute of Legal Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.

1996 - Present: Director of MPA Program at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia

1992 - 1993: Director of the National Centre for Administration at the Bulgarian Government, Sofia.

1980 - 1988: Associate Professor of Administrative Law, Institute of State and Law, Sofia.

1972 - 1980: Assistant - Professor of Administrative Law, Institute of State and Law, Sofia.

1970 - 1972: Program Co-ordinator in Academic Research Planning and Co-ordination Division, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia.

1963 -1970: Head of Educational Methods Laboratory of the Sofia University Law School, Sofia.

1962 - 1963: Adjunct judge, Sofia Regional Court, City of Sofia.

 

3. TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, 1993-1994 and 1994-1995, courses in Criminal Justice Administration; Theoretical Criminology; Race, Minorities and Criminal Justice Administration; Comparative Justice Systems; Comparative Local Government, Politics and Public Administration.

• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1992-1993, courses in Comparative Justice, Comparative Local Government, Democracy and Change in Eastern Europe, Comparative Administrative Law, Social Policies and Citizens’ Rights.

• Burgas Liberal University, Bulgaria, 1995-1996, courses in Criminal Justice Administration, Administrative Law, Social Policy and Social Security Legislation, Civil Service.

• New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 1992-Present, courses in Administrative Law, Public Administration, Administrative Ethics.

• “St. Kliment Ohridski” University of Sofia, 1968-1992, courses in Administrative Law, Public Administration, Decision-Making Theory.

• Series of lectures in Comparative Administrative Law, Comparative Public Administration, Comparative Justice Systems in the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, England; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, USA; Helsinki University, Finland, and others.

4. EXPERIENCE IN SPECIFIC PROFESSIONAL AREA

Editor of Volume 2 of international publication project: “Local Governments in the CEE and the NIS: an Anthology of Comparative Descriptive Papers, 1999” 1998-1999.

 

National reporter on EU project “The Consistency of Bulgarian Social Security Law with EU Legislation on Equal Treatment of Men and Women”.

Local Lead Advisor, Phare Public Administration Reform Programme, BG 9317, 1997

Director of the National Centre for Administration at Bulgarian Government, Sofia, 1992-93.

UN Senior Adviser of UN Project on Rehabilitation of the Criminal Justice System in Rwanda, 1996.

Adviser of the National Standing Commission on Science, Culture and Education, 1988-1990.

Participation in drafting of Civil Servants’ Law, Police Law, Local Government and Local Administration Act, Law on Higher Education, Law about People’s Health, Law on Bulgarian Red Cross and others in the Bulgarian Parliament.

Member of a working commission on Legal Protection of Rights of Ethnic, Cultural and Religious Groups, 1990.

Director of training programmes on Local Government Administration and Public Policy, Centre for Administration, Sofia, 1991-1993.

Director of the Programme “Local Government and Territorial Policy”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1990-1991.

Member of Non-governmental Commission of International Humanitarian Law, 1989-1992.

Co-ordinator of Joint Programme “Bulgarian-American Law Days”, 1991-1992.

Participating in the activities of:

• International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Brussels, Belgium
• European Group of Public Administration
• European Co-ordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences, Vienna Centre-member of PAINT group
• UNESCO - member of working group on Information and Teaching on Human Rights
• International Association of Schools and Institutes of Public Administration, member of group “Women in Public Administration”
• NISPAcee - the Network of Institutes and Schools of Public Administration in Central and Eastern Europe

    5. HONOURS

Awarded TEMPUS Individual Mobility Grant of the Commission of the EUROPEAN Communities, 1991.

Honoured a “St. St. Cyril and Metodius” State Golden Order for achievements in the area of science and education, 1985.

                Awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1983.

6. LANGUAGE COMPETENCY

            English, Russian, French, Bulgarian

7. OTHER SKILLS

        Computer literacy

8. MAJOR PUBLICATIONS AND WRITINGS

        Books:

Public Administration, Ciela Publishing Hous, Sofia, 1998;

An Introduction into Public Administration, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 1997;

Law in the Changing Society, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, Sofia, 1995;

Municipal Affairs in the Developed Countries, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, Sofia, 1994;

Local Administrative Government in the USA, St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, Sofia, 1993;

Political Factors in Government, BTA Publishing House, Sofia, 1989;

Discretionary Power in Administrative Practice, Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia,1988;

Citizens’ Information about the Law, Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, (in Russian), 1978;

Administrative Decision, Publishing House of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1978.

Studies and articles:

More than 60 in the field of Administrative Law, Public Administration, Comparative Justice, Social Policy, Local Government.

Research in Progress:

“Administrative Reform and Administrative Legislation”.

April 20, 1999.

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