The activity of the Institute for the Rule of Law (IRL) at the European University at Saint-Petersburg (EUSPb) includes several ongoing research projects; regular publications in the press on issues of the rule of law and application of law; the production and dissemination of policy memos; 
regular research seminars; the monitoring of the press and web site updating; international conference; interaction of IRL research staff with stakeholders
and decision-makers.

IRL has instituted an innovative pattern of policy-oriented research work that is not typical in the Russian context. It consists in a threelevel spin-offs
from ongoing research and data analysis – weekly, monthly, and annual products, all of which are designed so as to produce maximum policy effects:
- weekly articles in the leading newspapers and professional web portals;
- policy memos on topical issues of legal and law enforcement reforms;
- academic monographs that reflect completed projects and contribute to the field of social studies of law.

Empirical legal studies Legal profession Judiciary Police studies Quantitative legal studies Regulation Studies

Dear colleagues,

This call is aimed at young scholars of Law & Economics, Law & Society, Empirical Legal Studies, and the adjacent fields with focus on post-Soviet countries. Postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students are invited to spend up to 3 months with the researchers at the Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at St. Petersburg, working on their dissertation or related projects.

The Institute for the Rule of Law is one of Russia's first academic institutions engaged in empirical legal studies. We study the behaviour of people enforcing the law: police officers’ decisions to register crime reports, detectives’ decisions to arrest suspects, judges’ verdicts and sentences, or defence attorneys’ efforts to protect their clients. The Institute’s work enriches the dogmatic legal scholarship with social science-based empirical methods. We study law as a behavioural phenomenon relying on cutting-edge methods of social science.

For more information, please read full Call for Proposals or contact us.