Russian Approaches to International Law

Lauri Mälksoo and Kaj Hobér held a roundtable discussion on Russian approaches to International Law. Is the Russian understanding of International Law the same as considered mainstream in the West or is the understanding different? If so, why and what implications for the future of International law can emerge out of these diffrent understandings? 

Speakers:

Lauri Mälksoo, Professor of International Law of the University of Tartu, Estonia.  

Kaj Hobér, Professor of International Investment and Trade Law, Fellow of the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Associate Researcher of the Russia and Eurasia programme at UI. 

Martin Kragh, Head of Russia and Eurasia Programme of The Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), was the moderator of the discussion.  

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