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List of Contributors

Dara Hallinan graduated from the University of Birmingham (2005) with a degree in Law and German and from the European Master’s in Human Rights and Democratisation (2009). After his graduation, he was employed by the global governance think-tank, Gold Mercury International, where he studied the discrepancy between current decision-making models and the speed of technological progression and globalization. He now works at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Karlsruhe, ) where he is studying the social and legal implications of new technologies and is a doctoral candidate at the Free University of Brussels, where he is researching privacy and data-protection law and theory against the background of new technologies. He has had a long-running fascination with Russia, which culminated in his move to the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, where he lived for over a year in 2008-2009. This experience immersed him in Russian society and gave him an extended and in-depth understanding of the reality of life in Russia and Russian culture. The experience also opened his eyes to the complexity of the relationship between Russia and Europe and to the difference between Russian and European conceptions of social organization and law.

Lauri Mälksoo was educated at the University of Tartu in Estonia (LL.B. in 1998) and received an LL.M. at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC (1999) and a PhD at Humboldt University Berlin (2002). Before his ap- pointment as Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu Faculty of Law, he was a post-doc research fellow at New York University School of Law (2004-2005) and Tokyo University (2006-2007). Professor Mälksoo is also di- rector of the University of Tartu’s Institute of Constitutional and International Law. In 2009, he was awarded a five-year grant from the European Commission’s European Research Council (Brussels) to study the contemporary Russian un- derstanding of public international law and human-rights law. He is a member of the executive board of the European Society of International Law and was the main organizer of the Society’s 2011 research forum held in Tallinn. He is also a member of the Council of the Centre for EU-Russia Studies (CEURUS) at the University of Tartu. A list of his recent publications can be found in the database .

Angelika Nussberger graduated with a degree in Slavonics (1987) and in Law (1989) from the University of . Her first state exam in law (Staatsexamen) was in Munich (1989); the second one in (1993); in that same year, 374 Review of Central and East European Law 37 (2012) she was awarded a degree by the University of Würzburg. Her doctoral dissertation was devoted to Soviet constitutional law during the transition period and her to public international law (2002). She was elected by the ’s Parliamentary Assembly as the judge from the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Court of Human Rights (in office since 1 January 2011) and she is also Professor of Law at the in Germany. Since 2002, Judge Nussberger has been director of the Institute of East European Law (Institut für Ostrecht der Universität zu Köln) (currently on leave). The Institute was founded in 1964 by the late Boris Meissner, who was a graduate of the University of Tartu before it was Sovietized. Judge Nussberger is a specialist in international human-rights law, Eastern European, particularly Russian, constitutional law and has authored a number of academic and popular publications on Russian law and government. A list of her publications can be found at . She has also been a member of the International Labour Organisation’s Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (2004-2010), a deputy-member of the Council of Europe’s (2006-2010), Pro-rector of the University of Cologne and is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from (2010).

Petr Preclik graduated from Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) (2010) and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice (Italy) (2008). He was then employed as a human-rights advisor within the UN system in Geneva and New York (January-December 2009). Currently, he is working as a freelance consultant with projects focused on democratiza- tion and elections and has been deployed in Guinea, Uganda, and Ivory Coast. Throughout his research, Mr. Preclik has focused on the roles that powerful state actors play (and are forced to play) within international regimes—especially in those reinforced by judicial mechanisms. The main question remains whether strict judicialized regimes, indeed, possess the power to influence the behavior of their members. Russia—thanks to its ambivalent relationship with Europe and its reluctant acceptance of the authority of the European Court of Human Rights—represents the strongest example for studying such roles within the regime of the Council of Europe and its court.

Dorothea Schönfeld has an academic background in Philosophy, History and Theology. As Research Assistant at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich (Germany), she pursued all-encompassing studies on inter-subjectivity and eth- ics. Later, she concentrated on the issue of human rights within the framework