Dr. Lucia Leontiev

Lucia Leontiev is a Max Weber Fellow at the Department of Law, European University Institute (Italy). Before joining the EUI, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Berlin Potsdam Research Group ‘International Rule of Law—Rise or Decline?’ in Germany. Lucia holds a double doctoral degree in International Law from the University of Maastricht and the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa. Her dissertation focuses on the jurisdiction of territorial non-state entities in international law.

She is an alumna of The Hague Academy of International Law and of the International Law Seminar organized by the UNOG in connection with the annual session of the International Law Commission (ILC). She worked as a legal adviser for the Ministry of Justice of Moldova and has held visiting teaching positions at universities in Europe and Central Asia.

Her research focuses on the law of statehood, jurisdiction, human rights, and the interaction between national and international legal orders, including the role of geopolitics in a changing international legal order—subjects on which she has extensively published.