Lectures on legal writing for participants of the Investment Law and Arbitration Lab
As part of the Investment Law and Arbitration Lab, one of the Lab’s Research Advisors Anna Kozyakova and the Center’s Senior Expert on Public International Law Aleksei Petrenko gave lectures on legal writing to the participants and discussed golden rules for working on research papers and other texts.
During the meeting, Anna Kozyakova considered the differences between various types of written legal materials, the specifics of legal analysis, the IRAC method of legal analysis, and also shared some tips related to the technique of successful legal writing.
Aleksei Petrenko spoke about the Center’s approach and stages of writing texts and gave recommendations from his own experience, in particular, about technical tools that are useful for legal researchers.
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Areas of professional expertise: Education In 2008, Aleksei graduated from the IKBFU (Kaliningrad). In 2013, he obtained an LL.M. degree with a specialization in international law from the University of Göttingen (Germany). He also completed an exchange semester at the University of Kiel (Germany). In 2024, the degree of Doctor of Law (Dr. jur.) was awarded following the defence of the dissertation at the University of Göttingen. The dissertation was written in the field of international law (“The Right to Regulate in International Economic Law: Towards a General Theory with Lessons from the GATS” In 2016, Aleksei received the “International Law in the 21st Century” Award from the ICLRC. The previous year, the Society of International Economic Law highly commended his paper on WTO law in an essay competition on international economic law. Professional Experience From 2016 to 2017, Aleksei worked as a research assistant at the Institute of International and European Law at the University of Göttingen. Later, Aleksei joined the WTO Expertise Center in Moscow, where he handled inter-State trade disputes from 2017 to 2019. He was a member of the litigation team that achieved the first win in a WTO dispute initiated by Russia. Aleksei participated in over ten inter-State disputes, including panel and Appellate Body proceedings, representing complainants, respondents and third parties. He also took part in WTO committee meetings and conducted practical seminars on trade law for representatives of government agencies and large businesses. Aleksei has developed and taught law courses at three universities in both Russian and English. In 2022, he joined the School of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) as an Associate Professor, where he teaches subjects related to public international law. Before joining the ICLRC, Aleksei worked with the Center as an expert, and in 2020, he officially became part of the team, focusing on issues linked to public international law.
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Anna Kozyakova graduated from the Faculty of Law of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad (track “International Law”). She then completed her master’s and doctoral studies at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. In 2020, Anna obtained a PhD degree. She teaches and researches in the field of international and international economic law. Her areas of particular interest are international investment law and international arbitration. Anna Kozyakova’s research on “Foreign Investors Misconduct in International Investment Law” has been published by Springer International Publishing. Anna is the author of courses on legal writing and research techniques in legal studies. Since 2020, Anna has been involved in the work of the International and Comparative Law Research Center as an external expert as part of the Center’s participation in UNCITRAL Working Group III sessions as an observer.