Anton Kazun

National Research University Higher School of Economics | HSE · Institute for Industrial and Market Studies

In non-democracies, lawyers face various constraints ranging from the absence of acquittals or violations of their clients’ rights to threats and criminal proceedings against them. Yet, we know little about the working conditions of attorneys’ in authoritarian regimes, and what influences their desire to remain in the profession. Using a survey of...

This paper analyzes the process of renegotiation of the informal contract between the regional and federal elites of Russia after the economic crisis. We use the database of Center of Public Procedures’ “Business against Corruption” to show that, after 2011, regional elites in Russia lost the pre-existing opportunity to extract rents from businesse...

Since about 2009, increasing budgetary constraints forced the Russian state to become notably less tolerant of lower-level corruption and predatory behavior by state agencies. In this paper, we argue that after a first stage of decentralized corruption and state capture during the 1990s, and a second period of decentralized corruption and business...

В настоящей статье анализируется влияние экономических и политических институтов на внимание ведущих печатных СМИ стран Большой двадцатки к политическим лидерам. На основе ресурса Factiva, содержащий тексты публикаций 35 тысяч СМИ из 159 стран мира, была собрана база данных о числе упоминаний лидеров стран в пяти ведущих изданиях всех стран Большой...

В настоящей статье анализируются публикации в пяти ведущих печатных изданиях каждой из стран Большой двадцатки (G20) за 2018 г. На основе ресурса Factiva была собрана база данных о числе взаимных упоминаний стран мира в национальной прессе на 13 языках. Сетевой анализ полученных результатов позволяет определить место России относительно других стра...

To illustrate the role of organizations of lawyers in social changes we analyze the process of transforming legal and socio-political institutions in Russia over the past 30 years. We combine the theory of legal mobilization with the concept of violence and social orders proposed by North, Wallis and Weingast to describe the general logic of this p...

If the rule of law does not prevail, certain privileged groups gain an advantage in court. Recent studies have shown that law enforcers in Russia are one of the social groups, which, being be explained in different ways, including their special status and loyalty of the judges. Without rejecting these possible reasons, we assume that law enforcemen...

Introduction. In the educational systems of different countries, much experience has been gained regarding the use of project-based learning. This method is an alternative to traditional lecture-based learning: it helps to pull together a theoretical training material with real life; additionally, it changes the roles of pupils and teachers: studen...

Since 2011 Russian authorities have taken a number of measures aimed at protecting entrepreneurs from raiding. In this article, based on publications in the media about cases of violent pressure on business (4947 articles for 2011 and 3703 articles for 2015), we analyze how the instruments of raiding attacks changed by 2015. On the basis of a compa...

Three tragedies occurred on the same day - December 19, 2016: mass poisoning with "surrogate alcohol" in Irkutsk, the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Turkey and the Berlin Christmas market attack. Studies show that public opinion regarding these events is shaped by the way these stories are covered in various types of media such as telev...

We analyse the profession of criminal defence lawyers (“advocates”) in Russia to understand their potential for collective action in an imperfect institutional environment. In 2013, we conducted a survey of 372 advocates in 9 regions of Russia. The following two main hypotheses are tested: (1) lawyers with strong ethical values have a higher demand...

The article looks at how Pierre Bourdieu's fields theory and the theory of professionalism correlate in the analysis of legal communities. We demonstrate that even though Pierre Bourdieu criticized the notion of profession and called for it to be abandoned, his views regarding the legal field were in fact very close to the concept of professionalis...

The present paper reviews the activity of professional organizations of advocates as a factor of transfer from limited access order to open access order, in terms of the theory of North, Wallis and Weingast. Using the analysis of the experience of advocates’ collective action in developing countries, the paper proposes a model explaining the proces...

This article discusses the factors that affect the chances of a favorable resolution of claims to the WTO dispute settlement. Drawing on several hundreds of complaints received by the WTO since the establishment of the organization and till 2014, we demonstrate that the developing countries have a smaller probability of successful resolution in the...

The article analyzes the Russian lawyers community in order to assess its potential for collective action in an imperfect institutional environment, its potential for joint efforts to monitor compliance with professional ethics, to improve the quality of legal education, and to represent the interests of the professional group at the state level. T...

By using a database of 543 cases of violent corporate raiding in Russia from 2011-2013 assembled by the Center of Public Procedures "Business against Corruption", we tested several hypotheses: Violent corporate raiding is widespread in regions 1) with welldeveloped industrial, construction and trade sectors 2) rent-oriented law enforcement agencies...

The article analyzes social and economic factors that provide Russian attorneys an opportunity to compensate the institutional weakness of their profession, to protect the independency and effectively defend the interests of the clients. As an indicator of dependent position of attorney we use the proportion of cases with plea bargaining. Using the...

We analyse the professional community of attorneys in Russia in order to understand their potential for collective action in an imperfect institutional environment. In 2013 we conducted a survey of 372 attorneys in 9 regions of Russia. Two main hypotheses are tested: 1) lawyers with strong ethical values have higher demand for collective actions 2)...

In their most recent works, North and his coauthors (North, D. C., J. J. Wallis, S. Webb, and B. R. Weingast. 2012. In the Shadow of Violence: Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press; North, D.C., J. J. Wallis, and B. R. Weingast. 2009. Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Int...