Ethnic Bias in Russian Courts

• In Event: Comparative Law and Courts

Brief Overview

We uncover how shared ethnicity between judges and defendants shapes sentencing in Russia, revealing in-group leniency that fades in ethnic republics and is conditioned by institutional context and judges’ generational backgrounds.

Authors

• Mikhail Belov, University of California, Los Angeles

• Yulia Khalikova, University of Hamburg

• Nikita Zakharov, University of Freiburg