Dr. Lauri Mälksoo works as Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is a member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, of the Institut de Droit International and of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the history and theory of international law, including the monographs „Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law“ (Oxford University Press 2025) and „Russian Approaches to International Law“ (Oxford University Press 2015). He is co-editor of „The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe“ (OUP, 2023) and of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law. His research has received several international and Estonian prizes. He has been fellow at New York University School of Law, Tokyo University, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars (in Washington, DC), Stanford University and the Institute of Advanced Study in Paris.

Qualifications

PhD Humboldt University Berlin 2002

LL.M. Georgetown University Law Center 1999

LL.B. University of Tartu 1998

Research interests

International law and human rights; history of international law, particularly in Eurasia and Eastern Europe