Who Are the Humans Behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia?

Dr Agnieszka Kubal’s talk introduces her project 'Who are the humans behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia?' (HuRiEE). This five-year research breaks new ground in studying the unprecedented human rights mobilisation in five countries of Eastern Europe – Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, and Russia – whose citizens until recently brought more than fifty per cent of all the claims to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This five-year research breaks new ground in studying human rights mobilisation as a window into the societies of Eastern Europe and Russia. The talk will focus on presenting the first co-authored monograph from the project (contracted with UCL Press), entitled: 'Who are the humans behind Human Rights? Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Eastern Europe and Russia'.

Dr Agnieszka Kubal is Associate Professor at SSEES, UCL. She is an interdisciplinary socio-legal scholar with area studies interest in Central Eastern Europe and Russia. Prior to coming to SSEES, she held lectureships in Russian and Eastern European Studies (Oxford), and Department of Social Science (UCL). Agnieszka is the author of two monographs, 'Socio-legal Integration. Polish post-2004 EU Enlargement Migrants in the UK' (2012, Ashgate/ Routledge) and 'Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia. Socio-Legal Perspectives' (2019, Cambridge University Press). Together with Marina Kurkchiyan, Dr Kubal co-edited a volume on 'A Sociology of Justice in Russia' (2018, Cambridge University Press) acclaimed by the critics as 'the most analytically sophisticated and empirically rich volume ever produced on the everyday operation of the Russian legal system.' Dr Kubal is currently a Principal Investigator on an UKRI/ERC Starter Grant (2022-2027) ‘Who are the humans behind Human Rights in Eastern Europe and Russia?’ (HuRiEE).

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