Maxim Likhachev is an Associate Professor at the International Law Department of the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University (Ekaterinburg). Heads the G.V. Ignatenko Center for International Law.

He defended his PhD thesis on the problems of application of international law for the protection of human rights at the international and domestic levels.

He is engaged in the theory and philosophy of international law, especially the problems of international legal personality in the light of critical theories in law (posthumanism, animal turn, metamodernism). Key research interest is the place of human and non-human living entities and subject nature in international law, developing theories of international legal hospitality, ecology of international legal identities and international legal human identity.

He has participated in the preparation of 7 textbooks on international law, human rights, humanitarian law, European law.