List of Contributors
Dara Hallinan is a researcher at Fraunhofer ISI, working in the ICT research group in the Emerging Technologies Department. His work at Fraunhofer focuses on understanding the legal and social significance of Information and Communication Technologies, in particular surveillance and security technolo- gies. He has worked predominantly on the FP 7 project SAPIENT (PrIvacy and Ethics in surveillaNce Technologies), but has also contributed to a number of other FP7 projects including PRESCIENT (Privacy and Emerging Sciences and Technologies) and IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies). He holds a batchelor’s degree in law from the University of Birmingham and a Mas- ter’s in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre in Venice. He is currently working towards his doctorate at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the regulation of genetic data in research biobanking. He is on the programming committee of the annual Computers Privacy and Data Protection conference. 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 in 2009, he was a post-doc research fellow at New York University School of Law (2004-2005) and Tokyo University (2006-2007). He also was Emile Noël Fellow at NYU School of Law during the academic year 2013-2014. Profes- sor Mälksoo was the founding director of the University of Tartu’s Institute of Constitutional and International Law and currently is director of the Estonian Foreign Policy Institute, a think tank in Tallinn. In 2013, he was elected mem- ber of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded a five-year grant from the European Commission’s European Research Council (Brussels) to study the contemporary Russian understanding 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, an interdisciplinary center. A list of his recent publications—a number of them on Russian approaches to international law—can be found in the database
Angelika Nussberger graduated with a degree in Slavonics (1987) and in Law (1989) from the University of Munich. Her first state exam in law (Staatsexamen) was in Munich (1989); the second one in Heidelberg (1993); in that same year, she was awarded a doctorate degree by the University of Würzburg. Her doctoral dissertation was devoted to Soviet constitutional law during the transition period and her Habilitation to public international law (2002). She was elected by the Council of Europe’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 University of Cologne 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
Petr Preclik graduated from Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic, 2010) and the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisa- tion in Venice (Italy, 2008). In 2009, he was awarded an EU-UN fellowship and worked as a human-rights advisor with the Permanent Mission of the Czech Republic in Geneva and the Delegation of the European Union in New York. During the period 2010-2013, he was deployed as election observer throughout Africa, Caucasus, and Eastern Europe. Currently, Mr. Preclik serves in the foreign service of the Czech Republic. Throughout his research, Mr. Preclik has focused on the roles played by powerful states 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. The Russian Federation, in this sense, represents the strongest border case in studying such impact.