Plenary Roundtable

Lauri Mälksoo is Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu. He is a member of the Institut de Droit International and of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. He has published extensively on the history and theory of international law in Russia and the Soviet Union and is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe as well as the author of the monograph Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law (OUP, 2025). (Photo by Rene Riisalu)

Cindy Wittke-Hohlfeld is Professor for Normativity in International Politics at the University of Regensburg and Head of the Department of Politics at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS). Her research examines the politics of international law in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, with a particular focus on how legal norms, sovereignty claims, and international authority are contested and instrumentalised in contexts of war and protracted conflict. She has published widely in leading journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, Global Policy, and the Review of Central and East European Law, and is the author of Law in the Twilight (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and co-author of Frieden verhandeln im Krieg (Negotiating Peace during War) (2024). Her current work explores the role of international law in imperial continuity, territorial contestation, and the restructuring of global order. (Photo copyright: (c)Kordas/IOS)

Yaryna Zhukorska is an Associate Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law and International Relations at the National University “Kyiv Aviation Institute.” She previously served as Head of the Department of International Law and European Integration and as Head of the Department of International Law and Migration Policy at the West Ukrainian National University in Ternopil. Dr. Zhukorska is a member of the Sectoral Expert Council DIII “Law” (International Law) for Higher Education Quality Assurance, as well as the Ukrainian Association of International Law and the European Society of International Law. Her main areas of expertise are international responsibility and international organisations.