The Nanda Center Welcomes Dmitrii Kuznetsov

The Ved Nanda Center is pleased to welcome visiting Fulbright Scholar Dmitrii Kuznetsov. Dmitrii is a PhD candidate with the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He specialises in constitutional law, human rights law, and international law. He holds an LLM degree in comparative constitutional law from Central European University, Budapest/Vienna. 

The topic of Dmitrii’s Fulbright research is the separation of powers and the role of the judiciary in the implementation of states’ environmental obligations. The study aims to address questions arising within the domain of implementing the state’s climate obligations and environmental human rights. It also focuses on issues of vertical separation of competencies between federations and their constituent entities, the proliferation and effectiveness of specialised environmental tribunals, and the question of whether the judiciary is capable of being an effective power to make states fulfil their climate obligations, regardless of the political concerns.     

Before joining Gothenburg University, Dmitrii worked with the European Court of Human Rights as a case-processing lawyer, specialising in freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and fair trial rights cases.

At Gothenburg, Dmitrii teaches advanced classes on constitutional legal history, constitutional law and politics, and a new course, law and security in the EU.

His recent publications include Adjudicating Climate Protest as a Tool of Modern Republicanism, and The duty of care for animals in environmental disasters: Lessons from the Kerch Strait oil spill.