Research

Recent Invited Talks
2025. Ukraine Solidarity Information Group. Three Years of War: Where Are We Now?

2024. Atwater Public Library, Montreal. The Roots of Russia’s War on Ukraine.

2024. University of Bergen, Politics of Anticorruption in Eastern Europe.

2024. Universitas Airlangga (Indonesia), Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development and The Rule of Law. Is Ukraine too corrupt to join the EU? Anticorruption Reform, Corruption Perceptions, and Measurement Debates.

2024. Université de Montreal, CÉRIUM, Ukraine is Europe: Contemporary Ukrainian Politics and Identity.

2024. King’s College London, Russia Institute, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. University of Manchester, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. McGill University, Centre for International Peace and Security Studies, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. The University of Kansas, Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. Carleton University. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. Iowa City Foreign Relations Council. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2024. Harvard University, Davis Center. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2023. Comenius University, Slovakia. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

2023. Toronto Metropolitan University Frontlines of Democracy Series. The Path to War Between Russia & Ukraine.

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

2023. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Russia at War Speaker Series. Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States.

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

2022. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Center for European Studies. Russia’s War Against Ukraine and Ukraine’s Challenge to the EU.

2021. University of Oxford, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK. The Politics of Corruption Prosecutions:
Varieties of Anticorruption Campaigns
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2021. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. LawTransform, Autocratic Legalism Roundtable.

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

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

2020. PONARS Eurasia, George Washington University. Toward the Rule of Law in Eurasia?

2019. University of Manchester. No Revolution of Dignity for Ukraine's Judges: Post-Maidan Judicial Reforms.

2019. University of Oxford, St. Anthony’s College. No Revolution of Dignity for Ukraine’s Judges: Post-Maidan Judicial Reforms.

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

2018. 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, MacMillan Center. The Weaponization of Law in Russia.

2018. Columbia University, Harriman Institute. Politicized Justice in Putin’s Russia.

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 at Harvard University, Daedalus Authors’ Workshop. Can Russia Become a Rule of Law State?

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. Ukraine, Écosse... Les Processus D'Indépendance.

2014. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Centre for European Studies. Russia, the West and War in Ukraine.

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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Department of Political Science

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