Anita K. Soboleva
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Law / School of Theory of Law and Comparative Law
- Anita K. Soboleva has been at HSE University since 2009.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Thesis Title: Topoi and Arguments in judicial texts: analysis of the judicial decisions of the Russan and German Constitutional Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court
Thesis Title: Arguments in parliamentary debates on separation of powers in the US Congress and the Congress of Peoples’ Deputies of RSFSR
All-Soviet Union Distance-Learning Law Institute, Law
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
Best Teacher — 2024, 2012
Courses (2024/2025)
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; School of Foreign Languages; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod) field of study Philology, field of study Fundamental and Applied Linguistics; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries field of study Fine Art, field of study Design, field of study Media Communications; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE); 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science (HSE Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Graduate School of Business field of study Management, field of study Management, field of study Management; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities field of study Asian and African Studies, field of study Asian and African Studies, field of study Asian and African Studies; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Sociology, field of study Psychology; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences field of study Economics, field of study Economics; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Management field of study Design, field of study Software Engineering; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Creative Industries field of study Media Communications, field of study Advertising and Public Relations; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Economic Sciences; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Urban and Regional Development; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Legal Literacy (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod); 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Semiotics of Law: Research Methodology" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
- Research seminar "Written speech of a lawyer" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- The Principle of Equality in Modern Political and Legal Thought (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 5 year, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Equality and Discrimination: Comparative Legal Analysis of Theoretical Concepts and Judicial Practice (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 1 module)Rus
- Equality and Discrimination: Comparative Legal Analysis of Theoretical Concepts and Judicial Practice (Mago-Lego; 1 module)Rus
- Law (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences field of study Political Science, field of study Sociology; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Research Seminar "Law and Language as a Field of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Legal Studies" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Law and Language" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
- Research seminar "Written speech of a lawyer" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Comparative Politics (Mago-Lego; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Comparative Politics (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to Law (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
- Legal Writing Skills (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Project Seminar "Legal Writing Skills" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Project Seminar "Legal Writing Skills" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
- Project Seminar "Legal Writing Skills" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Current Issues in History, Theory and Philosophy of Law" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Law and Language" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 2-4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Legal Writing Skills (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Current Issues in History, Theory and Philosophy of Law" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Russian Legal System and Legal Tradition (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 4 module)Eng
- The legal texts skills (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Practical Science Seminar "Legal Writing Skills" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 3 year, 3 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Current Issues in History, Theory and Philosophy of Law" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Law and Language" (Optional course (faculty); Faculty of Law; 2-4 module)Rus
- The legal texts skills (Postgraduate course; 1 year, 1 semester)Rus
Editorial board membership
Grants
2018. Russian Foundation for Fundamental Reserach. Project "Legitimation of law through discourse: speech act as a form with normative content". Participants: A.Soboleva (leader), M.Belyaev, V.Denisenko.
Conferences
- 2024
СОВРЕМЕННЫЕ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИОННЫЕ ВЫЗОВЫ: ПРАВОВЫЕ ОТВЕТЫ (Москва). Presentation: Онлайн-сталкинг как новый вызов безопасности индивида
- 2023
К защите приватности 2023 (Москва). Presentation: "Право на нарратив о себе" в цифровом пространстве как часть права на частную жизнь в цифровую эпоху
Научная конференция к 15-летию журнала «Право. Журнал Высшей школы экономики»ю Секция 'Сравнительное правоведение в сорвеменной юриспруденции' (Москва). Presentation: Междисциплинарный подход к сравнительному правоведению
Право и язык: актуальные проблемы взаимодействия (Москва). Presentation: Язык и стиль юридических текстов как отражение состояния правовой системы
Универсальные стандарты прав человека и их имплементация: конституционализм и международное правосудие на переломе эпох" (Москва). Presentation: Нормы о необходимости получения согласия супруга на аборт жены: конституционно-правовые аспекты
- 2020
Конституция и конституционность:эволюция подходов и понятий (Москва). Presentation: В поисках универсалий в конституционном праве: гипотеза и направления поисков
Правовая коммуникация государства и общества: отечественный и зарубежный опыт (Воронеж). Presentation: Судительная, делиберативная и эпидейктическая речь в правовой коммуникации
- 2019
4th annual CEENELS Conference "Legal Innovantiveness in Central and Eastern Europe" (Москва). Presentation: Interpretation in absence of canons: can topical approach help?
Law and Society Association Annual meeting "Dignity" (Вашингтон). Presentation: Law and Art in Crime Settings: Human Dignity and Visual Construction of Guilt
Система принципов российского законодательства: техника закрепления, интерпретации, реализации (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Место принципов в топической модели права
Права человека как основа конституционализации правопорядка: тенденции и перспективы (Москва). Presentation: "Конституционализация прав человека: влияние международных норм и национальных традиций на каталог фундаментальных прав"
Противодействие злоупотреблению правом: теория, практика, техника (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Злоупотребление на подачу жалоб как причина отказа в рассмотрении дел в практике ЕСПЧ
- 2018
Международная научная конференция "Право - явление цивилизации и культуры (Жидковские чтения 2018)" (Москва). Presentation: Термины права в семиотике культуры
Проблемы юридической аргументации (Минск, Гродно). Presentation: Иерархия источников права или иерархия общих мест аргументации?
Границы прав и свобод личности с точки зрения либертарно-правовой теории (к 80-летию академика РАН В.С.Нерсесянца) (Воронеж). Presentation: Право как система топов и юридический либертаризм: о взаимосвязи непозитивистских моделей права
Реакция государств на угрозы безопасности и религиозное многообразие (Прага). Presentation: Threats and Restrictions: What Is Understood by "Security" in Freedom of Religion Cases
XX Международный научно-практический форум 'Юртехнетика' на тему 'Риски в законотворчестве, правореализации, юридической науке: техника формирования и функции системы управления' (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Правовая неопределенность нормы как преднамеренный или непреднамеренный интерпретационный риск
International scientific conference "Russian constitutionalism and challenges of times: lessons of the first 25 years" (Москва). Presentation: Конституция как источник права и как аргумент: к теоретическому вопросу об иерархии источников права и системе аргументации в праве
- 2017
Определенность и неопределенность права как парные правовые категории: проблемы теории и практики (Москва). Presentation: Правовая определенность нормы и границы поля юридической аргументации
The 18th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law 2017 "Singularity, Generality and Exemplarity in Legal Discourse" (Нью-Йорк). Presentation: Sources of law v. Sources of Arguments: Positivist and Rhetorical Approach to Law and Legal Reasoning
Россия и ЕСПЧ: право быть услышанным (Москва). Presentation: Развитие практики Европейского Суда по правам человека по свободе выражения мнения: старые подходы и новые тенденции
- 2016
Всероссийская научно-практическая конференция "Интересы в праве" (Жидковские чтения-2016) (Москва). Presentation: Понятие интереса в тексте ЕКПЧ и его толкование в решениях Европейского Суда по правам человека
Роль образования и исследований в области прав человека в продвижении стандартов Совета Европы (Москва). Presentation: Преподавание прав человека студентам-юристам и студентам других специальностей: опыт НИУ ВШЭ // Teaching human rights to law students and non-legal students: HSE experience
XVIII Международный научно-практический форум "Юртехника" в формате круглого стола и в жанре дискуссионного клуба на тему "Коллизии законодательных, интерпретационных, правоприменительных актов: доктрина, практика, техника преодоления" (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Юридическая коллизия как риторическая антиномия: понятие и способы разрешения
Правовое регулирование: проблемы эффективности, легитимности, справедливости (Воронеж). Presentation: Стоимость юридических услуг и эффективность защиты прав человека
La liberta di espressione nella Federazione di Russia (un confronto a dieci anni dalla morte della giornalista Anna Politkovskaja) (Удине). Presentation: Freedom of the press in Russia: legislation and practice
- 2015
Признание права и принцип формального равенства (Воронеж). Presentation: Конструирование прав лиц с ментальными расстройствами в решениях Европейского суда по правам человека: позитивные меры выравнивания или обеспечение формального равенства?
Religion and equality: cotemporary challenges in accommodating diversity (Будапешт). Presentation: Freedom of Arts in a Secular State and Religious Rights: Balancing Exercise in Russia and the ECtHR
IV Международная летняя школа по правам человека в г. Воронеже "Взаимодействие государства и гражданского общества в реализации Международных пактов о правах человека" (Воронеж). Presentation: Обращение с жалобой в Европейский Суд по правам человека в защиту социальных прав
IV Международная летняя школа по правам человека в г. Воронеже "Взаимодействие государства и гражданского общества в реализации Международных пактов о правах человека" (Воронеж). Presentation: Обращение в Европейский Суд по правам человека с жалобой на нарушение социальных прав
- 2014
International Roundtables for the Semiotics of Law (Копенгаген). Presentation: Legal Interpretation in Human Rights Cases: National and International Judges as Readers and as Authors
Научно-практическая конференция «Права ребенка в современной России и за рубежом: право, политика и культура» (Москва). Presentation: Развитие ювенальной юстиции в России: мифы, достижения, перспективы
- 2013
Правовое государство и правосудие: вопросы теории и практики (Москва). Presentation: Словесное манипулирование в текстах судебных решений
14th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law "Semiotizing and Semiotized Law" (Хуанчжоу). Presentation: Compatibility of arguments and resolution of antinomies in legal reasoning
11th Biennial Conference on Forensic Linguistics/Language and Law (IAFL) (Мехико). Presentation: Legal Definitions as a Means to Overcome Polysemy in Legal Discourse
Международный научно-практический круглый стол «Демократизация правотворчества: доктрина, практика, техника» (Нижний Новгород). Presentation: Законодательные дефиниции как средство манипулирования: недемократические ограничения прав человека в законотворческой и правоприменительной практике
- 2012
Sociolegal Conversations across a Sea of Islands (Гонолулу). Presentation: Russian Constitutional Court and the ECtHR: Is Reconciliation of Arguments and Positions Possible?
- 2010
Правовые ценности перед угрозами современного мира (Санкт-Петербург (онлайн)). Presentation: Современные вызовы правам человека
Employment history
Lawyers for Constitutional Rights and Freedoms (JURIX) 2003-2015
Moscow Science Foundation 1996-1997
Member of the Bar, lawyer 2002-2014
Membership of professional bodies
- Moscow Oblast Bar Association (since 2002)
- International Round-tables for the Semiotics of Law
- LSA (Law and Society Association - since 2000)
- IALL (International Association of Law Libraries - 2001-2010), Board Member for the terms of 2007-2010
- Member of Moscow Lawyers' Club
HSE Staff Members Receive University Awards
On November 30 HSE staff members were awarded honor awards of the university at the meeting of the Academic Council.
New English-language program «Russian Law» for Russian and foreign undergraduate and graduate students
This year Academic Council of the Faculty of Law decided to open English-language program «Russian Law» for Russian and foreign undergraduate and graduate students.
Exchange Students from Nice Visit HSE Faculty of Law
HSE Faculty of Law delivered a course on Jurisprudence for exchange students from the Nice Sophia Antipolis University as part of long-term ties between the universities. This was the first student exchange under the partnership agreement between the two universities. HSE plans to further develop this partnership programme.
International Spring School on Human Rights Debates Issues of Religion, Identity and Freedom of Conscience
In May, the HSE Voronovo Learning Centre hosted the International Spring School on Human Rights, a five-day educational retreat organized jointly by the HSE Department of Public Policy, the University of Bologna and the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
HSE Faculty of Law Students Make it to Final Round of European Human Rights Moot Court Competition
A team of students from the HSE Faculty of Law has made it to the final round of the international European Human Rights Moot Court Competition, which will take place in Strasbourg, France on February 15-18 of this year.
Evgeny Yasin joins the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights
On August 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a directive appointing HSE Academic Supervisor Evgeny Yasin to the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights. His candidacy was proposed by Council head Mikhail Fedotov.
HSE Law Students are through to the Final at Strasbourg
HSE students of the Faculty of Law have made it through to the final of the International European Moot Court Competition at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
HSE Law Students are through to the Final at Strasbourg
HSE students of the Faculty of Law have made it through to the final of the International European Moot Court Competition at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Baltic Practice 2012
The HSE’s Baltic Practice Summer School has just finished in Klaipeda and Kaunas. Once again, the school was run in conjunction with Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania).
Partnership with the Oldest European University
Last year was designated the year of Russia in Italy and Italy in Russia. Nina Belyaeva, Head of the HSE Department of Public Policy, told us about the HSE’s cooperation with one of its key Italian partners – the University of Bologna, as well as about new academic mobility opportunities for HSE undergraduate and postgraduate students.