Autor: Francoise Hampson

The author: Anton Burkov, Dip Jur (Urals State Law Academy), Cand Sc Jur (Tyumen’ State University), LLM (University of Essex), has been a doctoral student of law and TNK-BP Kapitza Scholar at the University of Cambridge since 2005. In 1998-2007, Burkov worked for the Urals Centre for Constitutional and International Protection of Human Rights of the NGO Sutyajnik as a staff attorney and project coordinator. In 2001-2002, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York. Burkov has published five books and more than 20 articles in Russian- and English-language law journals. The foreword author: Françoise Hampson is Professor of Law at the University of Essex, and an expert for the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights.