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HRTS 510 · The European Human Rights System, Dr. Anton Burkov

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9 a.m., Sept. 17, 2026

Dr. Anton Burkov, LLM (Essex), Ph.D. (Cambridge), is the founder, CEO, and chief country-conditions expert witness at the Strategic Litigation Center, where he testifies as an expert witness on Russia in U.S. immigration, asylum, and Convention Against Torture proceedings, on retainer to U.S. law firms including Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius.

For more than two decades, he has litigated human rights cases in Russian courts — including the Supreme and Constitutional Courts — and before the European Court of Human Rights, including cases addressing organ removal without family consent, digital privacy, and freedom from forced labor. He is the…