Lauri Mälksoo is Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia. He is member of the Institut de Droit International, of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He has published widely on the history and theory of international law, including the monograph “Russian Approaches to International Law” (OUP, 2015) and is co-editor and co-author of the volume “The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe” (OUP, 2024). He is co-editor of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law and belongs to advisory boards of several specialized international law journals.