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Dr. Elena Sherstoboeva serves as a Lecturer at Essex Law School, University of Essex, where she specializes in the intersection of media law, digital regulation, and international human rights with particular focus on non-Western contexts. Her scholarly work critically examines freedom of expression frameworks, disinformation governance, and privacy protections within authoritarian and post-Soviet legal systems, especially Russia.
Her academic credentials include dual Ph.D. degrees from Ramon Llull University (Spain) and Moscow State University (Russia), complemented by visiting fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Leeds. These diverse educational foundations underpin her transnational legal perspective.
Dr. Sherstoboeva's research program systematically investigates how digital technologies challenge traditional legal paradigms in restrictive regimes, with recurring themes including Council of Europe standards adaptation, judicial mythmaking in authoritarian contexts, and pandemic-era digital surveillance governance. Her methodology bridges doctrinal legal analysis with empirical media studies.
Her publication trajectory (2014-2024) reveals escalating engagement with geopolitical crises, notably Ukraine war-related disinformation laws and pandemic surveillance policies. The body of work demonstrates consistent focus on Russian legal evolution while expanding into comparative East Asian digital governance frameworks, reflecting growing scholarly influence in critical media law studies.
No scientific awards were documented in the source material.
Actively open to supervision, Dr. Sherstoboeva mentors students in media law and digital rights research areas. Her professional experience includes significant consultancy for UNESCO, OSCE, and Council of Europe on media regulation, though specific grant funding details remain undisclosed in available records.
