BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute's newest series\, Law in World Affairs\, presents Egor Lazarev from Yale University for a virtual book talk. This event is open to Syracuse University faculty\, students and staff. Please use your syr.edu email when registering. \;The book explores the use o f state and non-state legal systems by both politicians and ordinary peopl e in postwar Chechnya. It addresses two interrelated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state legal systems at the expense o f state law\, and why do some members of repressed ethnic minorities choos e to resolve their everyday disputes using state legal systems instead of non-state alternatives? The book documents how the rulers of Chechnya prom ote and reinvent customary law and Sharia in order to borrow legitimacy fr om tradition and religion\, increase autonomy from the metropole\, and acc ommodate communal authorities and former rebels. At the same time\, the bo ok shows how prolonged armed conflict disrupted the traditional social hie rarchies and pushed some Chechen women to use state law\, spurring state f ormation from below.  \;Egor Lazarev is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and a scholar at the Harvard Academy for I nternational and Area Studies. His research focuses on law and state-build ing in the former Soviet Union. His first book "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom\, Sharia\, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" was published by Cam bridge University Press in 2023. Egor’s other research has been published in \;World Politics\, World Development\, \;and \;Political Sc ience Research &\; Methods. Currently\, he conducts field research on l egal reforms and politicized criminal cases in post-Soviet Armenia. \; DTEND:20231030T213000Z DTSTAMP:20260307T211446Z DTSTART:20231030T200000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:State-Building as Lawfare: Custom\, Sharia\, and State Law in Postw ar Chechnya UID:RFCALITEM639084968863370868 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute's newest series\, La w in World Affairs\, presents Egor Lazarev from Yale University for a virt ual book talk. This event is open to Syracuse University faculty\, student s and staff. Please use your syr.edu email when registering. \;

The book explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by both pol iticians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya. It addresses two interre lated puzzles: why do local rulers tolerate and even promote non-state leg al systems at the expense of state law\, and why do some members of repres sed ethnic minorities choose to resolve their everyday disputes using stat e legal systems instead of non-state alternatives?

The book documen ts how the rulers of Chechnya promote and reinvent customary law and Shari a in order to borrow legitimacy from tradition and religion\, increase aut onomy from the metropole\, and accommodate communal authorities and former rebels. At the same time\, the book shows how prolonged armed conflict di srupted the traditional social hierarchies and pushed some Chechen women t o use state law\, spurring state formation from below.  \;

Egor Lazarev is an assistant professor in the Department of Po litical Science and a scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. His research focuses on law and state-building in the forme r Soviet Union. His first book "State-Building as Lawfare: Custom\, Sharia\, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya" was published by Cambrid ge University Press in 2023. Egor’s other research has been published in&n bsp\;World Politics\, World Development\, \;and \;Political Science Research &\; Methods. Currently\, he conducts field resea rch on legal reforms and politicized criminal cases in post-Soviet Armenia . \;

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