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	text:  larger  smaller		Marina Kurkchiyan Foundation for Law, Justice and Society Research Fellow  Marina Kurkchiyan joined the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in 1999 as the Peter North Fellow and Research Fellow of Keble College. In 2001 she was appointed Centre Research Fellow. From 2003 she was Paul Dodyk Fellow and Research Fellow of Wolfson College and took up her present position in 2007. Dr Kurkchiyan is a sociologist who specialises in legal culture and the impact of public policy on social structure and human behaviour. She has conducted research in many countries including Ukraine, Russia and the regions bordering on the Black Sea and the Caspian. As a consultant to the World Bank, the DfID, the Open Society Institute and the UNDP she has completed a number of official reports on the interaction between law and society in relation to development. Her academic papers have appeared in several languages and have dealt with the socio-legal aspects of education, poverty relief, the informal economy, respect for law and health care. Her current research examines the transplanting of legal institutions from the West into Post-Communist societies, particularly the efforts made in Russia since 2000 to create voluntary councils for media outlets that would enable newspapers, TV and radio to regulate themselves and thereby avoid censorship, litigation and intimidation. Subject groups : Socio-Legal Studies All | Recent | Selected Publications    sorted by selection | sort by year M Kurkchiyan, 'The Illegitimacy of Law in Post-Soviet Societies' in Galligan and Kurkchiyan (eds), Law and Informal Practices: The Post-Communist Experience (OUP 2003) M Kurkchiyan and Doreen McBarnet, 'Contractual Control: Business Regulation of Business' in Doreen McBarnet and Thomas Campbell (eds), New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2007) M Kurkchiyan and D McBarnet, 'Corporate social responsibility through contractual control? Global supply chains and ‘other-regulation’' in D McBarnet, A Voiculescu, T Campbell (eds), The New Corporate Accountability: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law (Cambridge University Press 2007) Other notes:This was initially DM's idea but was developed jointly. MK-B conducted nearly all the interviews, analysed all the data, and drafted the chapter. DM amended the text and it was finalised jointly after discussion. DM arranged for publication. Overall, MK-B's contribution could be assessed as more than half. ISBN: 978-0-521-86818-1 M Kurkchiyan, 'The Impact of the Transition on the Role of Law in Russia' (2007) 28(3) Recht der Werkelijkheid, Special Issue on ‘Explorations in Legal Cultures' 81-99 M Kurkchiyan, 'Researching Russian Legal Culture' in Reza Banakar and Max Travers (eds), Theory and Method in Socio-Legal Research (Hart Publishing 2005) M Kurkchiyan, 'The Armenian Media in Context: Soviet Heritage, the Politics of Transition, and the Rule of Law' (2006) 14(2) Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 266-282 DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.14.2.266-282 ISBN: 1074-6846 Correspondence address: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UQ Link to personal web site Link to Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Link to Wolfson College Link to University email/phone directory in new window