Research

Recent Invited Talks
2023. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Judicial Behavior in Ukraine post-2014.

2023. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2022. Institute for Legal Studies, Budapest, Hungary. Weaponized Legalism.

2021. University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK. The Politics of Corruption Prosecutions:
Varieties of Anticorruption Campaigns


2021. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. LawTransform, Autocratic Legalism Roundtable 

2021. Bertelsmann Foundation/Chatham House, Systema vs. the Rule of Law in Ukraine.

2021. JUSTIN Institute, Masaryk University, Czechia. Post-Maidan Judicial Reform.

2020. PONARS Eurasia, George Washington University. The Politics of Corruption Prosecutions.

2019. University of Manchester. Post-Maidan Judicial Reforms.

2019. University of Oxford, St. Anthony’s College. Post-Maidan Judicial Reforms.

2019. Miami University of Ohio. Havighurst Center. Rule of Law Backsliding in Eastern Europe.

2019. Carleton University, Centre for European Studies. The Rule of Law in Eastern Europe 15 Years after EU Accession.

2018. Embassy of Austria, Ottawa. Rule of Law in Europe: Threats and Resilience.

2018. Yale University, McMillan Centre. The Weaponization of Law in Russia.

2018. Columbia University, Harriman Institute. Putin-Style “Rule of Law”.

2017. Princeton University. Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption and Judicial Reforms.

2017. Georgetown University. Weaponization of Law. Data and Methods in the Comparative Study of Legal Institutions Collaborative Workshop.

2016. American Academy of Arts and Science, Harvard University. Can Russia Become a Rule of Law State? Daedalus Authors’ Workshop.

2016. Georgetown University. Instrumental Politicization of Judicial Output. Data and Methods in the Comparative Study of Legal Institutions Collaborative Workshop.

2015. University of Oxford. How Politicized are the Russian Courts? Sociology of Justice in Russia Workshop.

2015. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Ukraine’s Judiciary After Euromaidan.

2015. Sciences Po, Centre de Recherches Internationales. Ukraine’s Judiciary After Euromaidan.

2015. Leiden University. Prosecution of Political Corruption in Eastern Europe.

2015. Kyiv School of Economics, University of California-Berkeley, USAID, and Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics, Kyiv, Ukraine. "Symposium Escape USSR?". Judicial Reform After Maidan.

2015. Università di Bologna. Prosecution of Political Corruption in Eastern Europe.

2014. Université de Montréal School of Law. Constitutional Dimensions of the Ukrainian Crisis.

2014. University of North Carolina. Ukraine Under the Fog of War.

2014. Simon Fraser University. Ukraine Under the Fog of War.

2014. Emory University. Book talk for Politicized Justice.

2014. University of Michigan. Book talk for Politicized Justice.

2014. Columbia University, Harriman Institute. Book talk for Politicized Justice.

2014. Université de Montréal, Ukraine’s Euromaidan: A Pro-European Revolution?

2013. Advancing Reform in Ukraine Workshop, Kyiv, Ukraine. “Ukraine’s Politicized Courts” December 13-14.
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