Kirill Entin
PhD in Law, Master of Law (LL.M.), Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union – Head of the Expert and Analytical Department, Minsk, Belarus. Head of the Eurasian Sector of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies of the National Research University Higher School of Economics (CCEIS). Member of the working group on International law of regional organizations of the World Association of International Law (ILA). Author of numerous publications in Russian and other languages on the law of the EU and the EAEU. Research interests: the European Union and Russian-European relations, EU law, the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), EAEU law, competition law, sanctions law, the European Court of Human Rights.
Aleksandr Evseev
Candidate of Sciences (Ph. D.) in Law, Associate Professor of International Law Department, Russian State University of Justice. In 2019-2024 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Higher School of Economics. Author of more than 20 books and 120 articles.
Dmitry Krasikov
(Co-Editor in Chief)
PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Master of Law (Mjur, Oxon), Chair of International Law Department a
Ilya Lifshits
Doctor of Sciences in Law, Professor of International Law Department, Law, Russian Foreign Trade Academy. Graduated cum laude from the legal department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1994, partner of the practice ‘Global Financial Regulation’ of the EDAS law bureau, certified auditor since 1995, certified tax consultant, has a professional qualification in financial regulated markets and clearing activities.
Maksim Likhachev
PhD in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of International Law in the Ural State Law University. He defended his PhD dissertation on application of international law in the protection of human rights at both the international and domestic levels. His research focuses on the theory and philosophy of international law, particularly on problems of international legal personality through the lens of critical legal studies (posthumanism, animal turn, metamodernism). His key research interest lies in the legal position of the human and non-human living entities and the nature of personality in international law; he is developing a theory of international legal identity of the human being.
Andrey Lunev
PhD in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of International Law, Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev. He defended his thesis on the fundamental rights of legal entities in international law (the concept of corporate human rights). His research interests include human rights and international mechanisms for their protection, the theory of international legal personality — in particular, the status of corporations and non-governmental organizations — as well as the history of international law. He is also the author of the popular science Telegram channel “PRO International Law.” [«PRO международное право».]
Sofya Pimenova
PhD in Law, Assistant at the Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University. A researcher and author of a number of publications in the fields of international justice, international investment law and investment arbitration, European Union law, and Eurasian Economic Union law.
Ilya Rachkov
(Co-Editor in Chief)
PhD in Law, Master of Law (LL.M.), Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb), attorney at law (Russia), partner at Nektorov, Saveliev & Partners (Moscow). Ilia teaches international investment law at the law faculty of the Higher School of Economics (Russia, Moscow) and “Interrelation between international and domestic law” at the law faculty of the Saint Petersburg University. Author of the textbook World Trade Organization: Law and Institutions (Moscow, 2019), co-editor and author of a number of chapters in the textbook “International Investment Law” (Astana, 2024) and a number of other publications on international economic law. Research interests: international arbitration, international economic law (including international investment law, international trade law and international financial law).
Ksenia Shestakova
PhD in Public International Law, Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of Constitutional Law, Saint Petersburg State University. She serves as the Academic Director of the Master’s Programme Public International Law, which she launched and has directed at Saint Petersburg State University since 2018. Dr Shestakova teaches original courses on Public International Law, the Law of International Organisations, the Theory and History of International Law, and several other subjects, for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and supervises MA and PhD theses. Her research and publications address general issues of public international law, the theory and history of international law, international space law, the international protection of cultural heritage, and other contemporary fields.
Anita Soboleva
PhD in Linguistics, Master of Law (LL. M.), practicing lawyer with many years of experience in litigating cases in Russian courts and the European Court of Human Rights. From 2003 to 2014 she was a lawyer at MOCA.She specialized in handling cases on the protection of social rights of citizens and freedom of expression, lectured for Russian judges, students and lawyers on the application of Article 10 of the Convention. She has more than 50 publications in the field of human rights, including on media freedom, as well as on legal theory, legal rhetoric and comparative constitutional law.
Elena Sychenko
PhD in Law, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Labour and social law at Saint Petersburg State University. In 2016, she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Catania (Italy). In 2017, her monograph “Individual Labour Rights as Human Rights: The Contributions of the European Court of Human Rights to Worker’s Rights Protection” was published by Wolters Kluwer International. She teaches Russian, international, and European labour law, and also delivers an original course on ESG compliance at the University of Bologna. Elena actively publishes in English, French, and Italian. Her research focuses on the protection of labour rights at the international level, business and human rights, and the contribution of UN human rights committees to the protection of labour-related human rights.
Marina Trunk-Fedorova
PhD in Law, Master of Law (LL.M.), Associate Professor at the Department of Administrative and Financial Law of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University, Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Procedure of the Ural State Law University. Co-chair of the International Economic Law Interest Group of the European Society of International Law (ESIL). Author of more than 40 scientific papers in Russian and foreign languages on international economic law. Research interests: WTO law and regional economic integration.
Maria Filatova
PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of International Law of the Faculty of Law and Head of the Research and Training Laboratory of International Justice of the National Research University Higher School of Economics. Member of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL). Author of numerous publications in Russian and foreign languages on civil procedure, European standards of justice, the importance of the case-law of supranational bodies for the Russian legal system.