Professor Mikhail Antonov, senior fellow under the Land Steiermark fellowship program

The Department Global Governance at the Institute of the Foundations of Law is pleased to welcome Professor Mikhail Antonov as senior fellow under the Land Steiermark fellowship program and looks forward to include him into the scholarly activities of our department.  Mikhail Antonov is Associate Professor at the Institute of Theory and History of State and Law at the Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation). He studied law in Paris, Leiden and St. Petersburg. Additionally, other professional and fellowship positions have led him to Washington, Cologne and Tartu. In his research activities, Mikhail Antonov focuses on legal thought and political culture in Russia, contextualized against the background of human rights and competing ideas of State sovereignty. Professor Antonov is also a permanent member of the editorial board of the Review of Central and East European Law and has recently published his opus magnum titled Formalism, Decisionism and Conservatism in Russian Law (Brill Nijhoff, 2021) in the book series “Law in Eastern Europe” (co-edited by Benedikt Harzl and Joseph Marko). The book is accessible under: https://brill.com/view/title/59141