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Victoria Koroteyeva
Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs
kv26@columbia.edu
Biography:
Victoria Koroteyeva teaches "Reforming Legal Systems after Communism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia." She received her Ph.D. in history from the Moscow Institute of Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which she joined as a research fellow. Dr. Koroteyeva conducted anthropological research among urban Muslim communities in Central Asia and studied the relationship between Russians and other nationalities in ethnic republics of the Russian Federation.
Her research in Tatarstan and Sakha (Yakutia), sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, resulted in a book, Economic Interests and Nationalism. She has also authored Theories of Nationalism in the Social Sciences.
Victoria obtained the JD degree with honors from Columbia’s School of Law in 2006, and clerked at the Court of First Instance, the major trial court of the European Union. She has practiced law, served as a volunteer for the City Bar Justice Center and is currently assisting Judge Louis B.York of the New York Supreme Court.
Her research interests include legal reform and counter-reform in the Russian Federation, freedom of expression in ethnically divided societies, transnational litigation, and legal regimes of war and peace.