Russia and the Right to Self-Determination in the Post-Soviet Space

Johannes Socher is a postdoctoral research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and is currently seconded to the German Federal Foreign Office as an academic adviser on rule of law assistance. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law and at the German Research Institute for Public Administration. He has two state examinations in German law, an M.Sc. in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.M. as well as a Ph.D. in law from the German University of Administrative Sciences.