Mikhail Antonov

Mikhail Antonov studied law and graduated from the Saint-Petersburg State University in 2000. In 2005 he obtained a Master’s Degree in social sciences from Paris-V-René Descartes University (France). In 2006, he received a PhD in law from Saint-Petersburg State University, and since then has been teaching legal theory, comparative law and history of Russian legal thought. He is currently a law professor at the Law Faculty of the Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg (Russia). He was also a G.F. Kennan fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, D.C.), a visiting professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques d’Aix-en-Provence (France) and  at the Institute of Eastern European Law of Cologne University (Germany).