Elmurod Sobirov is a graduate in Sociology of Law from Lund University. His research focus on corruption, informality, rule of law, governance in post-Soviet states, and state-society relations. His bachelor thesis and master’s dissertation focused on corruption, informal hierarchies, rule of law, informal legal orders and social norms in Uzbekistan. He has studied in the field of social sciences at various EU universities, such as the University of South-Eastern Norway, Lodz University, Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, European University Viadrina, National School of Political and Administrative Studies SNSPA, and University of Oslo.