Professor; Dean, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at TSUL Dildora Umarkhanova

Dildora Umarkhanova is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at Tashkent State University of Law (TSUL), Uzbekistan. She holds a Doctor of Science (DSc) in Law and a PhD from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent (2010), with a thesis on international legal cooperation in extradition.
She joined TSUL in 2007 and teaches public international law, international criminal law, the law of treaties and human rights. From 2020 to 2026 she was Dean of the Faculty of International Law and Comparative Legislation, after heading the Department of International Law and Human Rights. From 2015 to 2017 she was a researcher at the University of World Economy and Diplomacy.
Her research focuses on international cooperation in criminal matters and extradition, women's rights and access to justice, and EU law. She has written or co-written 20 books, textbooks and manuals, including monographs on extradition and international cooperation in criminal matters (2012, 2017, 2020), textbooks on international criminal law and the law of international treaties, and a handbook on improving women's access to justice prepared within the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan, USAID and UNDP project "Partnership for the Rule of Law in Uzbekistan" (2020).
She led the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet project "Tashkent State Law University and Jean Monnet of the European Union" (2022–2025) and is a member of the Jean Monnet project "European Union Private International Law" (2024–2027). Under Uzbekistan's "Women Scientists" research programme she headed a project creating Uzbek-language texts of major international law treaties and took part in developing "Lend me your hand", a legal, psychological and business consulting app for women (2024–2025). She also contributes to a World Bank-funded project establishing a Center for Disability Rights Research and Advocacy (2025) and to the Horizon Europe projects CARSI and POLCA.
She has served on expert and working groups of the Prosecutor General's Office of Uzbekistan on anti-corruption programmes, sits on scientific councils for the award of degrees in international law, and is a member of the editorial boards of several law journals. She is an alumna of the Hague Academy of International Law (2016, 2017), the UN International Law Seminar in Geneva (2017) and the Specialization Course in International Criminal Law in Siracusa (2016), and has judged the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition since 2022. She speaks Uzbek, Russian, English and Turkish.