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Dr. Alexandra Orlova

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Dr. Alexandra Orlova is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and in the Faculty of Law at 成人大片. She received her Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in 2004. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Osgoode Hall Law School.

Alexandra joined the Department of Criminology as a full-time faculty member in August 2005. She teaches courses on Canadian Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, International Perspectives, and Security Threats.

Her main research interests focus on transnational organized crime, Russian organized crime, international terrorism and international crimes. She has published articles in the areas of international law as well as traditional and non-traditional security threats. 

Education

University Degree
Osoode Hall Law School LLB
Osgoode Hall Law School PhD

Selected Courses

Course Code Course Title
Criminal law
International Perspectives
Security Threats
CRM 406 Seminar course

Selected Publications

Edited Books

  • Dementev, I.O., Orlova, A.V., Chalyi V.A., eds., 袦械褋褌芯 袟邪锌邪写薪褘褏 袠写械泄 胁 袪芯褋褋懈泄褋泻芯屑 袨斜褖械褋褌胁械薪薪芯屑 懈 袩褉邪胁芯胁芯屑 小芯蟹薪邪薪懈懈 (The Place of Western Ideas in Russian Socio-Legal Consciousness) (Kaliningrad, Russia: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Press, 2016) ISBN 978-5-9971-0434-4 [in Russian].
     

Edited Journal Volumes

  • Gerry Ferguson, Suvrajyoti Gupta, Alexandra Orlova, Poonam Puri, eds., 鈥淣ew Governance Strategies for Preventing Corruption: Law, Theory and Practice,鈥 Jindal Global Law Review 9:1 (2018).
     

Papers in Refereed Journals

  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淐ryptocurrency, Sovereignty and Sanctions: Russia鈥檚 Shift from Cryptocurrency to the Digital Ruble,鈥 Houston Business & Tax Law Journal XXV:1 (2024), 1-24.
  • Orlova, A.V., "Death Penalty in Russia: From European Norms to Domestic Constitutional Identity," Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law XI:April (2024), 149-172.
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淩ussia鈥檚 Utilization of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lockdowns, Re-Sovereignization and Disengagement from the West,鈥 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 29:2 (2022), 119-145.
  • Orlova, A.V., "'Digital Sovereignty,' Anonymity and Freedom of Expression: Russia's Fight to Re-Shape Internet Governance," UC Davis Journal of International Law and Policy 26:2 (2020), 225-247. (Funding for this article was provided by Ryerson University Faculty of Arts Special Grant (SPG)).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淭he Soft Power of Dissent: The Impact of Dissenting Opinions from the Russian Constitutional Court,鈥 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 52 (2019), 611-642.
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥溾楩oreign Agents,鈥 Sovereignty, and Political Pluralism: How the Russian Foreign Agents Law Is Shaping Civil Society,鈥 Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (JLIA) 7:2 (2019), 382-417 (Winner of the New York State Political Science Association鈥檚 (NYSPSA) Arthur L. Galub Best Faculty Paper Award). 
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淩ussian Politics of Masculinity and the Decay of Feminism: The Role of Dissent in Creating New 鈥楲ocal Norms,鈥欌 William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender and Social Justice 25 (2018), 59-86.
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淪overeignty, Dissent, and the Shaping of International Consensus around Human Rights: An Examination of Russian 鈥淒isengagement鈥 from the European Court of Human Rights,鈥 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law 35:3  (2018), 435-468.
  • Orlova A.V., Challenging Everyday Violence of the State: Developing Sustained Opposition Movements through Anti-Corruption Protests,鈥 Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 42 (2018), 173-196.
  • Orlova, A.V. and Boichev, V., 鈥溾楥orruption is Us鈥: Tackling Corruption by Examining the Interplay between Formal Rules and Informal Norms within the Russian Construction Industry鈥 Journal of Developing Societies 33:4 (2017), 401-427. (Funding for this article was provided by Ryerson University Faculty of Arts Special Grant (SPG) and Ryerson University Faculty of Arts/OVPRI Undergraduate Research Opportunity (URO) grant).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淧ublic Interest,鈥 Judicial Reasoning and Violence of the Law: Constructing Boundaries of the 鈥淢orally Acceptable鈥 Contemporary Readings in Law and Social Justice 9:2 (2017), 51-80. (Funding for this project was provided by Office of the Vice President, Research and Innovation, Ryerson University and Office of the Dean of Arts, Ryerson University as well as Ryerson University Arts Undergraduate Research Assistants (AURA) grant program).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淧rivatizing Homosexuality: Russia鈥檚 Reassertion of 鈥楳oral Sovereignty鈥 over Gay Rights鈥 Human Rights and International Legal Discourse 11:2 (2017), 122-181. (Funding for this article was provided by the Ryerson University Faculty of Arts/OVPRI New Initiatives Award (NIA), as well as by the Ryerson University Faculty of Arts/OVPRI Undergraduate Research Opportunity (URO) Grant).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淧lugging the Baby Gap? The Struggle to Reverse Demographic Decline in Russia鈥 Russian Law Journal 3:3 (2015), 83-109. (An abridged version of this article first appeared in the Eurasia Studies Society of Great Britain & Europe Journal 3:2 (2014), 1-15) (Research for this article was supported by the Department of Criminology, Faculty of Arts funds).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淎 Promising Solution? Changing the Current Russian Business Climate by Amending the Criminal Code鈥 European Business Law Review 23:5 (2012), 809-830. (Funding for this project was provided by Ryerson University Summer RA Program (Policy Studies).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淪toking Dangerous Fires: Nationalism and Hate Crime in the Russian Federation,鈥 Journal of Eurasian Law 2:3 (2010), 37-62.
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淭he Russian 鈥淲ar on Drugs鈥: A Kinder, Gentler Approach?鈥 Problems of Post Communism 56:1 (2009), 23-34.
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淩ussia鈥檚 Anti-Money Laundering Regime: Law Enforcement Tool or Instrument of Domestic Control?鈥 Journal of Money Laundering Control 11:3 (2008), 210-233. (Funding for this project was provided by a Ryerson University SSHRC/SIG Research Grant)
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淎 Comparison of the Russian and Canadian Experiences with Defining 鈥極rganized Crime,鈥欌 Trends in Organized Crime 11:2 (2008), 99-134. (Funding for the project was provided by a Ryerson University Faculty of Arts SRC grant).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淜orruption in Russland. Vom Mythos des Marktes und des Staates als Gegenmittel鈥 (Corruption in Russia: What remedy can finally cure it? Comparison of Yeltsin鈥檚 neo-liberal and Putin鈥檚 statist reforms) Osteuropa 1 (2008), 21-34. [in German] (Most cited non-English language journal as evaluated in the Journal Citation Report (2001) of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淢issing the Mark: The Russian Experience with Defining 鈥極rganized Crime,鈥欌 Columbia Journal of East European Law 1:2 (2007), 207-230. (Funding for the project was provided by a Ryerson University Faculty of Arts SRC grant).
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淎 Hope for the Future? Prosecuting Crimes Against Humanity in Russia's Courts,鈥 International Criminal Law Review 7 (2007), 45-76.
  • Orlova, A.V. and Baglay, S., 鈥淪tumpfe Waffen des Gesetzes: Der Kampf gegen den Menschenhandel in Russia und der Ukraine,鈥 (A Comparative Analysis of Russian and Ukrainian Legislative Efforts Directed Against Human Trafficking) Osteuropa 6 (2006), 169-191 [in German].
  • Orlova, A. V. "Trafficking of Women and Children for Exploitation in the Commercial Sex Trade: The Case of the Russian Federation," Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, VI: II (2005), 157-178.
  • Orlova, A. V., and Moore, J. W., 鈥溾楿mbrellas' or 鈥楤uilding Blocks鈥? Defining International Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime in International Law,鈥 Houston Journal of International Law, 27: 2 (2005), 267-310. (This article was cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in R v. Venneri [2012] 2 S.C.R. 211 at para.39 (majority opinion, written by Fish J.).
  • Orlova, A. V., 鈥淥rganized Crime and the Rule of Law in the Russian Federation,鈥 Essex Human Rights Review, 2:1 (2005), 23-37.
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淔rom Social Dislocation to Human Trafficking: The Russian Case,鈥 Problems of Post Communism, 51: 6 (2004), 14-22.
     

Book Chapters

  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥淩ussian Organized Crime and Political Power鈥 in Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour eds., The Handbook of Organized Crime and Politics (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2019) at 143-158. (This publication was supported by a grant provided by the Office of the Dean of Arts, Ryerson University)鈥.
  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥溞捫恍秆徯叫感 袟邪锌邪写邪: 锌褉邪胁芯胁芯泄 泻芯谢芯薪懈邪谢懈蟹屑 懈谢懈 泻芯褋屑芯锌芯谢懈褌懈蟹屑? 袦械褋褌芯 蟹邪褉褍斜械卸薪芯泄 锌褉邪胁芯胁芯泄 锌芯蟹懈褑懈懈 懈 褋芯褉邪蟹屑械褉薪芯褋褌懈 胁 锌褉芯写胁懈卸械薪懈懈 蟹邪褖懈褌褘 锌褉邪胁 褔械谢芯胁械泻邪鈥 Ma(Western Influence: legal colonialism or cosmopolitanism? The place of foreign legal ideas and the concept of proportionality in protecting human rights) in Dementev, I.O., Orlova, A.V., Chalyi V.A., eds., 袦械褋褌芯 袟邪锌邪写薪褘褏 袠写械泄 胁 袪芯褋褋懈泄褋泻芯屑 袨斜褖械褋褌胁械薪薪芯屑 懈 袩褉邪胁芯胁芯屑 小芯蟹薪邪薪懈懈 (The Place of Western Ideas in Russian Socio-Legal Consciousness) (Kaliningrad, Russia: Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Press, 2016), at 153-177 [in Russian].
  • Orlova,A.V., 鈥淭he Fight Against Transnational Organized Crime in Russia鈥 in Felia Allum and Stan Gilmour eds., Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime (London and New York: Routledge, 2011) at 494-508.
  • Burstein, P. and Orlova, A.V., 鈥淐riminal Organization Legislation: Politics and Practice鈥 in M.E. Beare ed., Honouring Social Justice (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008) at 251-270.
     

Other Publications

  • Orlova, A.V., 鈥溞犘拘谎 泻芯薪褋褌懈褌褍褑懈芯薪薪褘褏 褋褍写芯胁 胁 泻芯薪褋褌褉褍懈褉芯胁邪薪懈懈 泻芯薪褑械锌褑懈懈 芦芯斜褖械褋褌胁械薪薪芯谐芯 懈薪褌械褉械褋邪禄 懈 胁谢懈褟薪懈械 薪邪 锌褉邪胁邪 屑械薪褜褕懈薪褋褌胁鈥 (The Role of Constitutional Courts in Construction of 鈥淧ublic Interest鈥 and Impact on Minority Rights), II International Conference proceedings titled, 孝邪屑斜芯胁褋泻懈械 锌褉邪胁芯胁褘械 褔褌械薪懈褟 懈屑械薪懈 肖.袧. 袩谢械胁邪泻芯 (Tambov Legal Readings Dedicated to 175th Anniversary of Fyodor Plevako), (Tambov: Tambov Federal University Press, 2017) at 91-96 [in Russian].