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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 鈥渁uthoritarian rule of law鈥� and poses questions鈥攕uch as 鈥淗ow does a rule of law emerge?鈥� and 鈥淲hat is the role of constitutions in dictatorship?鈥濃�攚hich can shed new light on how authoritarian regimes function.