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June
2024
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17:01
Europe/London
Professor Yoram Gorlizki awarded British Academy Senior Research Fellowship

Professor Yoram Gorlizki
The outgoing Head of Department of Politics, , has been awarded a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship to complete a long-standing book project on A Soviet Rule of Law: Justice and the Constitution in Soviet Russia.
Gorlizki is one of 11 2023/24 awardees of the . His project will provide the first in-depth analysis of a major Soviet policy to ask whether it might be possible to have a particular form of the rule of law in an authoritarian state.
In doing so it builds on and extends a growing body of work on the “authoritarian rule of law” and poses questions—such as “How does a rule of law emerge?” and “What is the role of constitutions in dictatorship?”—which can shed new light on how authoritarian regimes function.