Tsvetelina van Benthem

Dr Tsvetelina van Benthem is a lecturer in international law at the University of Reading and the University of Oxford. She specializes in international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and the intersection of international law and emerging technologies. Her doctoral research at the University of Oxford examined targeting mistakes and weapons malfunctions under international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

Tsvetelina is one of the organizers of the Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace and a member of the Sino-European Expert Working Group on the Application of International Law in Cyberspace.

She is a senior legal adviser at The Reckoning Project, working on accountability for international crimes and violations of human rights law, with a focus on the conflict in Ukraine.