Lora Izvorova is a Fellow in Law at the LSE Law School. She recently completed her PhD in public international law at the University of Cambridge, for which she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship from the Cambridge Commonwealth, European and International Trust. Lora’s doctoral dissertation examines the meaning of human dignity in Russia’s interpretations of the European Convention on Human Rights and the role of dignity’s contested nature as an obstacle to the Convention’s internalisation in the state.

Lora is a member of the ERC-funded research project Human Rights Nudge, led by Professor Veronika Fikfak. The project builds on insights from behavioural economics, social science, and psychology to study why and how Council of Europe Member States violate their obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, and when and how they change their behaviour towards better or worse compliance.

Previously, Lora has served as Co-Convenor of the Public International Law Discussion Group at the University of Cambridge, Co-Convenor of the Cambridge International Law Conference, General Editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal, and Managing Editor of the LSE Law Review.

Lora holds an LLM in International Law from the University of Cambridge (2019). In 2018, she graduated with First Class Honours from the LLB programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science, having been awarded the Charltons Prize for the best overall performance in the first-year examinations.