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Tolibjon Mustafoev
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Tolibjon Mustafoev

Doctoral student

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Tolibjon Mustafoev
Contact details
  • Email: tolibjon [dot] mustafoev [at] soclaw [dot] lu [dot] se
Organisation
  • Department of Sociology of Law
  • Service point: 31
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Research areas

  • Corruption and anti-corruption
  • Legal pluralism
  • Social resilience

Current research

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 puts forward an argument 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 transitioning from a heavily closed to softer forms of authoritarianism, akin to a hybrid political regime.

This is a compilation thesis in the sociology of law and consists of four articles, preliminarily titled:

  1. Legal Mobilization in Uncertain and Fluid Legal Environment: Case Study of Female Entrepreneurs Operating in the Field of Child Care in Uzbekistan
  2. Informality, Business Environment and Legal Reform in Weak Rule-of-Law Contexts
  3. The Political Economy of Administrative Law Reform in Non-Democratic Regimes: Socio-Legal Analysis of Administrative Court Cases in Uzbekistan
  4. Informal Politics of Legal Reform in Authoritarian Regimes: Case Study of Uzbekistan

Publications

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Background

Tolibjon Mustafoev holds a BA (honours) in Commercial Law awarded University of Westminster (UK) (teaching institution is WIUT) 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. In collaboration with the UN Vienna Headquarters, he initiated and created the first youth regional academic and negotiations platform in Uzbekistan "Tashkent International Model UN". During 2017-2019 he served as a Secretary-General of this organization. Before his doctoral studies, Mustafoev was a research fellow affiliated with the Sociology of Law Department within the research project Central Asian Law: Business Environment and Legal Cultures.

20 Sep 2023