The article of Aryna Dzmitryieva and Vadim Volkov «Recruitment patterns, gender, and professional subcultures of the judiciary in Russia» has been published in the International Journal of the Legal Profession. The article explores sources of recruitment of judges and the influence of the social characteristics of judges on professional culture. Using the original survey and interview data from the Russian Federation, the authors identify and explain the changes in recruitment patterns that followed the judicial reform in the early 2000s. The authors look for profession-related differences between judges who had prior experience of work in the prosecutor’s office and judges who were recruited from the court’s non-judicial technical staff or from police investigation. Access the full text of this article here.
September, 2016 issue of the Journal of International Economic Law includes a contribution by Dmitriy Skougarevskiy, researcher at the Institute for the Rule of Law. This paper, co-authored with Wolfgang Alschner and titled «Mapping the Universe of International Investment Agreements», explores the diverse landscape of bilateral investment agreements and free trade agreements with investment provisions.
The Journal of World Investment & Trade (Volume 17, Issue 3, pages 339 – 373) includes a co-authored contribution (with Wolfgang Alschner) titled «The New Gold Standard? Empirically Situating the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the Investment Treaty Universe».
Institute for the Rule of Law published a book by Vadim Volkov, Aryna Dzmitryieva, Mikhail Pozdniakov and Kirill Titaev "Russian Judges: A Sociological Study of the Profession". The book discusses the structure of the judicial system and judicial proceedings in Russia. In book focuses on the history and the present day of judiciary in Russia. It also discusses their career trajectories. Where and how do judges get their education and initial experience? What values underlie their professional culture? What is the daily routine of judges, what are the conditions under which they work? How is the judicial community structured, what are its formal structures and mechanisms for selecting judicial candidates and mechanisms for controlling judicial conduct. How do judges interact with the outside world: society, government agencies? The book uses qualitative and quantitative data collected in 2011-2016. Selected chapters available at "Syg.ma".
A new preprint by IRL researcher Dmitriy Skougarevskiy has been published in Stanford Public Law Working Paper Series. This contribution, co-authored with Wolfgang Alschner, is titled «Consistency and Legal Innovation in the BIT Universe».
Within the framework of the project of the Institute for the Rule of Law at the European University at St. Petersburg trajectory diagrams of the criminal case trajectory were created, based on data for 2011-2013.
