Egor Lazarev

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.