Egor Lazarev

Bio

Egor Lazarev is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on law and state-building in the former Soviet Union. His first book State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. The book explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by both politicians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya. Egor’s other research has been published in World Politics, World Development, and Political Science Research & Methods. Prior to joining Yale, he was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto and a Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.

Contact

115 Prospect Street
Rosenkranz Hall
New Haven, CT  06520
+1  9178371871
egor.lazarev@yale.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science, Columbia University, 2018

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Awards

• 2024 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for best first book by a Yale ladder faculty member for State-Building as Lawfare: Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya (Cambridge University Press)

Articles

• 2025, March 21 - “Imperial Legal Politics after the Age of Empires: How the Russian Judiciary Adjudicates Commercial Disputes in Crimea”, Perspectives on Politics,  First View , pp. 1 - 21

Personal Website

Fields of Interest:

• Comparative Politics
• Law and Society
• Political Violence
• Post-Soviet Politics
• Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Research