My research covers a variety of topics, including legal theory, legal history, and public law.
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Works in progress
Journal articles
(co-authored with Ekaterina Mishina) Teaching Soviet Law in the 21st Century (open access), The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review (2024)
Between Exception and Normality: Schmittian Dictatorship and the Soviet Legal Order (open access), Ratio Juris (2022)
Legal Nurturing: the Educational Function of Law in the Soviet Union (open access), Special Issue - The Soviet and Post-Soviet Law: The Failed Transition from Socialist Legality to the Rule of Law State, The Ideology and Politics Journal (2021)
Opening the Pandora’s Box: Kelsen and the Communist Theory of Law (open access), Jurisprudence (2020)
The Semenchuk Case of 1936: Storytelling and Propaganda above the Law in the Soviet Criminal Trial, Review of Central and East European Law (2016)
Book chapters
Legal Form in the Soviet Dictatorship: Evgeny Pashukanis and His Interlocutors (open access), in Cosmin Cercel, Gian Giacomo Fusco, and Przemyslaw Tacik (eds.), Legal Form: Pashukanis and the Marxist Critique of the Law (2024)
The Problem of Evil Law (open access), in Mark Tushnet and Dimitry Kochenov (eds.), Research Handbook on the Politics of Constitutional Law (2023)
(co-authored with Shane Finn) Law Among Chaos: an anti-Schmittian Reading of Skyrim, in Dale Mitchell, Ashley Pearson, and Timothy D. Peters (eds.), Law, Video Games, Virtual Realities: Playing Law (2023)
Russia and International Human Rights Law: A View from the Past, in P. Sean Morris (ed.), Russian Discourses on International Law: Sociological and Philosophical Phenomenon (2018)
Book reviews
Lauri Mälksoo, Illegal Annexation and State Continuity: The Case of the Incorporation of the Baltic States by the USSR, Journal of Baltic Studies (2023)
David M. Crowe (ed), Stalin’s Soviet Justice: ‘Show’ Trials, War Crimes Trials, and Nuremberg, Review of Central and East European Law (2021)
Working papers
Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (open access), Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series (2017)
Translations
(co-authored with Bill Bowring) Evgeny Pashukanis, Hegel, State and Law (On the Centenary of His Death, in Cosmin Cercel, Gian Giacomo Fusco, and Przemyslaw Tacik (eds.), Legal Form: Pashukanis and the Marxist Critique of the Law (2024)
Short form (open access)
Teaching Soviet Law in the 21st Century: A Case Study, in Theses for the Roundtable at the ASEEES Annual Convention (2023) "Building a Free University in the Post-Soviet Space: Challenges and Opportunities’, Palladium - Free University (Brīvā Universitāte) Journal (2023)
The Legality of Evil: A Response to Balázs Majtényi on Radbruch’s Formula and Amoral Law, Verfassungsblog (2022)
St. Thomas Aquinas on Angels, Demons, and Evil ‘Law’, Ius & Iustitium (2021)
The Soviet Legal Narrative: How Stalin’s Prosecutor Used Law to Build the Soviet World, Athwart (2020)
Kelsen on Marx, Engels, and Natural Law, Legal Form (2020); Turkish translation (by Emek Ilgaz)
The Soviet Legacy of Current Human Rights Debates, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog (2018); Turkish translation (by Yusuf Enes Karataş)
The Soviet Court as a Propaganda Instrument II: The Semenchuk Case, 1936, The Language of Authoritarian Regimes (2017); Turkish translation (by Yusuf Enes Karataş)
The Soviet Court as a Propaganda Instrument, The Language of Authoritarian Regimes (2017); Turkish translation (by Yusuf Enes Karataş)