Conference presentations

Evil Law (Keynote)

• Talk, LL.M. Cumberland Lodge Weekend, London School of Economics and Political Science (forthcoming)

• Guest Lecture (Law LL.B.), University of Surrey School of Law (2024)

Jurisprudence After Dark: Legal Theorists in the Service of Evil Regimes

• Paper: in progress

• IVR World Congress (forthcoming)

• LSA Annual Meeting (forthcoming)

Angels, Demons, Us: Raz and Aquinas on the Coordinative Function of Law

• Papers: Angels, Demons, Us: Reconciling Raz and Aquinas on the Coordinative Function of Law (open access) (in progress); St. Thomas Aquinas on Angels, Demons, and Evil ‘Law’ (open access) (2021)

• Research Seminar, MCC Centre for Constitutional Politics (forthcoming)

• SLS (Society of Legal Scholars) Jurisprudence Section – Plural Visions of Law: The Legacy of Joseph Raz (2023)

• The Social Character of Human Flourishing Symposium (2022)

• Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference (2021)

Evil Law in St. Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy

• Paper: Evil Law in St Thomas Aquinas’s Philosophy (open access) (in progress); St. Thomas Aquinas on Angels, Demons, and Evil ‘Law’ (open access) (2021)

• Irish Jurisprudence Society Workshop Series (2025)

• Lunchtime Research Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science (2025)

• Higher Seminar in Philosophy of Law, Lund University (2025)

• Aquinas on Evil - 12th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop (2023)

Beyond Political Decisionism and Legal Normativism: Schmittian-Kelsenian Synthesis

• Paper: Beyond Political Decisionism and Legal Normativism: Schmittian-Kelsenian Synthesis (open access) (in progress)

• Legal Philosophy Workshop (2025)

• Lunchtime Research Seminar, London School of Economics and Political Science (2025)

• Organiser: Beyond Enmity: Carl Schmitt’s Unlikely Interlocutors, London School of Economics and Political Science Workshop (2025)

• Plenary, Nomos: Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power (2024)

• APSA Annual Meeting (2024)

Institutions and Interpretation (Roundtable)

• Paper: Making Sense of Evil Law (open access) (2025)

• ICON-S Conference (2024)

Teaching Soviet Law in the 21st Century: A Case Study

• Paper: Teaching Soviet Law in the 21st Century (open access) (2024)

• Organiser and chair: Building a Free University in the Post-Soviet Space: Challenges and Opportunities (Roundtable), ASEEES 55th Annual Convention (2023)

  • Theses (2023)

Legal Form in the Soviet Dictatorship: Evgeny Pashukanis and His Interlocutors

• Paper: Legal Form in the Soviet Dictatorship: Evgeny Pashukanis and His Interlocutors (open access) (2024)

• ASEEES 55th Annual Convention (2023)

• Legal Form Workshop (2023)

The Problem of Evil Law

• Paper: The Problem of Evil Law (open access) (2023)

• Legal Theory Discussion Group, ELTE Budapest (2022)

Making Sense of Evil Law

• Papers: Making Sense of Evil Law (open access) (forthcoming); The Legality of Evil: A Response to Balázs Majtényi on Radbruch’s Formula and Amoral Law (open access) (2022)

• Society of Legal Scholars Conference (2022)

• IVR World Congress (2022)

• Wolfson Research Event (2022)

  • Video (starting at 12:00 minutes)

• Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group (2022)

• Research Group on Socio-Legal Studies, Higher School of Economics (2021)

• Maastricht Law and Philosophy Graduate Colloquium (2021)

Between Exception and Normality: Schmittian Dictatorship and the Soviet Legal Order

• Paper: Between Exception and Normality: Schmittian Dictatorship and the Soviet Legal Order (open access) (2022)

• Critical Legal Conference (2022)

• History of Political Thought Graduate Conference (2021)

Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Papers: Russia and International Human Rights Law: A View from the Past (2018); The Soviet Legacy of Current Human Rights Debates (open access) (2017); Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (open access) (2016)

• ASEEES 51st Annual Convention (2019)

• ICON-S Conference (2019)

• Contingency in the Course of International Law: How International Law Could Have Been (Workshop) (2018)

Opening the Pandora’s Box: Kelsen and the Communist Theory of Law

• Papers: Opening the Pandora's Box: Kelsen and the Communist Theory of Law (open access) (2020); Kelsen on Marx, Engels, and Natural Law (open access) (2020)

• IVR World Congress (2019)

Russia v ECtHR: Resistance or Dialogue - A Comparative Analysis

• Paper: Russia v ECtHR - Resistance or Dialogue: A Comparative Analysis (open access)

• Development of Russian Law-XI: Access to Justice in Eurasia: From Regional to Global (2018)

• ICON-S Conference (2018)

• 1st Oxford-Edinburgh Public Law Colloquium (2017)

• Sixth Annual YCC Global Conference (2017),

  • Recipient of the Colin B. Picker Prize (Honourable Mention)

Semenchuk Case of 1936: Storytelling and Propaganda Above the Law in the Soviet Criminal Trial

• Papers: The Soviet Court as a Propaganda Instrument (open access) (2017); The Soviet Court as a Propaganda Instrument II: The Semenchuk Case, 1936 (open access) (2017); The Semenchuk Case of 1936: Storytelling and Propaganda above the Law in the Soviet Criminal Trial (2016)

• 6th Biennial Applied Legal Storytelling Conference (2017)

• XXIIIrd Annual Forum of the Association of Young Legal Historians (2017)