Professional Affiliation

Centre for East European Law and Eurasian Studies at the University of Graz; general editor of the Review of Central and East European Law

Expert Bio

Associate Professor Dr. Benedikt C. Harzl is based at the Centre for East European Law and Eurasian Studies of the Law Faculty of the University of Graz. He is General Editor of the journal Review of Central and East European Law and the book series Law in Eastern Europe (Brill Nijhoff). He graduated in Law at the University in Graz and completed his MA studies in “East European Studies” at the Free University of Berlin (2010). After working at the Institute for European Studies in Minsk and the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin he was a researcher at the European Academy in Bolzano/Bozen (2007–2012) and worked as a university researcher at the REEES Centre (2012-2016). He completed his PhD in law at the University of Frankfurt and was based at Johns Hopkins University as a Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow (2016-2017). His habilitation thesis examined matters pertaining to international law in the post-Soviet space. He is co-editor of Unrecognized Entities: Perspectives in International, European and Constitutional Law (Brill Nijhoff, 2022) as well as Diversity Management in Russia (Routledge, 2013).