Publications

  • Voice, Withdrawal, and Judicial Disagreement under Authoritarianism: Evidence from the Russian Constitutional Court. 2026 (Forthcoming). Politics

  • Should I Stay, or Should I Go? Self-legitimacy of Attorneys in an Authoritarian State. 2020. Crime, Law and Social Change, 75: 373–395. PDF (with Anton Kazun)

  • Constitutional Review and Dissenting Opinions in Nondemocracies: An Empirical Analysis of the Russian Constitutional Court, 1998–2018. 2020. Ekonomicheskaya Sotsiologiya, 21(3) (2020): 129–150. PDF
    Best Paper Award in Empirical Legal Studies (2nd place), Institute for the Rule of Law, European University at Saint-Petersburg

Working Papers

  • How Authoritarian Courts Use International Law: Evidence from Russia. Under review
    2021 Best Paper Award for Junior Researchers, Law & Courts Standing Group, ECPR

  • Authoritarian Control or Legitimacy? Timing Control and Electoral Disputes. Under review

  • Constitutional Judicial-Making under Authoritarianism: Empirical Evidence from Russia, 1992–2022. Preparation for submission

  • Authoritarian Durability, Prospects of Change and Individual Behavior: Evidence from a Survey Experiment in Russia (with Michael Rochlitz, Olga Masyutina, & Koen Schoors). Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, 2023. PDF

Work in Progress

  • Ethnic Bias in Russian Courts
    (with Dmitrii Shchetinin, Anton Kazun, Nikita Zakharov, Vadim Devyatnikov, and Mikhail Belov) — First draft

  • Does Collective Action Depend on Shared Ethnicity? The Case of Domestic Violence Trials in Kazakhstan
    (with Valeria Umanets and Marcy Shieh) — First draft

  • Benefits of Loyal Judiciary: Evidence from District Court Judges — Data collection

Other Writing

  • “Russia’s Censored Judges.” Riddle, December 4, 2021. URL
  • “30 Years of Constitutional Justice in the Russian Federation: What Needs to Change?” Riddle, August 24, 2021. URL
  • “Russia’s Cat and Mouse Game with International Courts.” Riddle, April 8, 2020. URL
  • Book Review: The Political Foundations of Judicial Independence in Dictatorship and Democracy. Democratization, 28(4) (2020): 859–861. PDF
  • Eurocast Podcast, “Russia’s Week”: Episode on the 2020 Russian Constitutional Reform. January 2020. URL