Rosana Garciandia is Co-Director of the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution (CIGAD) and Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London.

She conducts research on the international law response to human rights abuses, including torture, racial discrimination, labour exploitation and all contemporary forms of slavery. The focus of her work is currently on intersectionality in international human rights law, on inter-state communications before UN treaty bodies, and on the potential of collective trends in international dispute resolution. She is also a Research Leader on human and labour rights at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a Fellow of the Macrocrimes Center of the University of Ferrara.

Rosana has held positions in various international organisations. She served as Secretary General of the European Law Institute in Vienna. She has also worked at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and at the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights. She has also developed research for the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery and for the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights (EP DROI Subcommittee).

Dr Garciandia joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in 2018 after having acquired extensive experience working at those international organisations in the areas of human rights, EU law and international anti-corruption law. She was previously Lecturer in Public International Law and EU Law at University of Murcia in her native Spain. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Navarra.

Her publications include articles on inter-state communications before UN treaty bodies (Austrian Review of International and European Law, 2025; International Human Rights Law Review, 2024), racial discrimination (Max Planck Yearbook for UN Law, 2022, with P. Webb), domestic servitude (Industrial Law Journal, 2023), insulting speech (chapter with P. Webb and D. Milo on Freedom of Speech in International Law, OUP, Amal Clooney and Lord David Neuberger KC eds., 2024), human rights and corruption (EP DROI, 2021), state responsibility and positive obligations (Leiden Journal of International Law, 2020) and state responsibility for modern slavery (International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 2019, with P. Webb). She has also edited a book on human dignity and international law (with P.Webb and A. Gattini), Brill, 2021), and published monographs on fragile states in international law (Comares, 2013) and on the international law applicable to external debt (Comares, 2011).

In 2024, she guest edited with J. P. Gauci a special issue of the International Human Rights Law Review on inter-state communications before UN treaty bodies. The editorial note can be read here. She has also contributed to the Intersectional Rewrites project, with a focus on Intersectionality in Strasbourg (2024).

Research interests

Dr Garciandia’s research interests are in public international law, international human rights law, intersectionality studies, international dispute resolution, State responsibility, migration and refugee law, labour rights, the law of international organisations, fragility of States, development cooperation, the rule of law, EU law, corruption and media freedom.