Event

Strategic Litigation in Russia: The Case of Bioethics

Date & Time

Friday

Mar. 8, 2019

11:00am – 12:00pm ET

Location

4th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center

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Event Sponsor

Kennan Institute

Overview

Strategic litigation aims to use specific court cases to develop new legal norms and create broad legal and social change beyond the decisions in the individual cases themselves. The individual cases can be used as tools to obtain justice for an entire class of people who are disproportionately affected by the unjust law. Anton Burkov, Director of the Strategic Litigation Center, discussed how these strategies have influenced the Russian legal system in the context of his work on bioethics issues that have arisen in the past five years.

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Speaker

Anton Burkov

Former Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution;
Director and Principal Attorney, Strategic Litigation Center

Kennan Institute

The Kennan Institute is the premier US center for advanced research on Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, and the surrounding region though research and exchange. Read more

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