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Anna Lukina is a Fellow in Law at the LSE Law School. She has recently completed a Ph.D. in Law at the University of Cambridge, funded by the Institute of Humane Studies’s Humane Studies Fellowship, the Cambridge Law Journal’s Partial Ph.D. Studentship, and the Modern Law Review Scholarship. Her thesis was entitled ‘Towards a Jurisprudence of Evil Law’ and focused on the relationship between law and extreme moral iniquity, both generally and with regards to Nazi Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, and slavery in the antebellum United States.
Anna has served as a Convenor of the Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group. Previously, she has served as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, a Convenor of the Oxford Law Faculty Public Law Discussion Group, an Associate Editor of the Oxford Undergraduate Law Journal, an Editorial Assistant at the Review of Central and East European Law, and a Copy Editor for the Brill-Nijhoff’s Law in Eastern Europe book series.
Anna also serves as a Bye-Fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. She holds an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School (2020), a B.C.L. with Distinction from the University of Oxford (2019), and a B.A. in Law (Jurisprudence) from the University of Oxford (2018).
Research
Anna’s research lies primarily in legal theory. She is particularly interested in the jurisprudence of atypical legalities such as such as evil regimes, pre-legal and post-legal societies, and even supernatural settings and imagined realities. In that work, Anna also draws on moral and political philosophy, legal history, in particular Soviet law, and public law.
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Confessions of a Luddite Teacher: a Case for Edtech Pessimism, (2025) LSE Higher Education Blog
Teaching Soviet Law in the 21st Century: A Case Study Theses for the Roundtable at the ASEEES Annual Convention (2023) "Building a Free University in the Post-Soviet Space: Challenges and Opportunities", (2023) Palladium - Free University (Brīvā Universitāte) Journal
Podcast: Anna Lukina on Transitional Justice and Soviet Law (2022) Free University (Brīvā Universitāte) Media Centre
The Legality of Evil: A Response to Balázs Majtényi on Radbruch’s Formula and Amoral Law (2023) Verfassungsblog
Podcast: Democratic Backsliding: Constitutional Law versus Authoritarian Politics (2022) Efficient Secrets
St. Thomas Aquinas on Angels, Demons, and Evil ‘Law’ (2021) Ius & Iustitium
Podcast: Anna Lukina on Kelsen & Communist Theories of Law (2020) Ipse Dixit
The Soviet Legal Narrative: How Stalin’s Prosecutor Used Law to Build the Soviet World (2020) Athwart
Kelsen on Marx, Engels, and Natural Law (2020) Legal Form
The Soviet Legacy and Current Human Rights Debates (2018) Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog
The Soviet Court as a Propaganda Instrument (I and II), (2017) The Language of Authoritarian Regimes