PhD Seminar: Tolibjon Mustafoev's mid-term seminar

• Attend the seminar online via Zoom

There is a prevalent view within academic and policy circles that the law ‘does not work’ in authoritarian regimes. This understanding is explained by referring to the institutional and legal landscape of authoritarian regimes marked by dysfunctional institutions, weak rule of law, widespread corruption, poor human rights record and weak civil society. Tolibjon Mustafoev's proposed PhD thesis argues that the operation of the law in authoritarian regime contexts is contingent upon situational, affective, temporal and spatial factors. These processes will be explored in the context of Uzbekistan, an authoritarian regime in post-Soviet Central Asia that is transitioning from a highly closed to a softer form of authoritarianism, akin to a hybrid political regime.

Tolibjon Mustafoev holds a BA (honours) in Commercial Law awarded University of Westminster (UK)and an LL.M. in Anticorruption Studies from the Academy of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan. He has previously worked as an independent researcher for the Academy of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Uzbekistan and as a national consultant on crime prevention and promoting a culture of lawfulness among youth at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Regional Office for Central Asia.