Anna Kocharov

Nationality: Finnish

LANGUAGES

English, Russian, Italian: fluent
French, Swedish: active spoken and written
German, Spanish: passive spoken and written

WORK EXPERIENCE

29/04/2013-16/05/2013:  Scuola Superiore della Magistratura (Florence, Italy)
Lectured and trained 320 Italian judges (in English and Italian)
Lectures: Mutual Recognition and the European Arrest Warrant
Training sessions: Return of Illegal Immigrants and Criminal Sanctions in EU Law

04/04/2012 - 15/07/2012: Internship in the chambers of judge Allan Rosas
Main duties: Legal research, followed hearings, participated in the work of the cabinet,
                   organized a series of workshops on EU law.

01/03/2011 - 31/03/2012: Teaching assistant to Professor Giuliano Amato, EUI (Florence, Italy)
Courses: Immigration and European Law, Constitutional Developments in the EU

01/01/2011 - 31/12/2011: Researcher representative (elected office), EUI (Florence, Italy)

16/11/2009 - 31/12/2010: Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies (EUI, Florence, Italy)
                                     Research assistant to Professor Miguel Poiares Maduro
Main duties: Research, editing and preparation of course materials and publications

01/09/2009 - 31/08/2013: Doctoral researcher of the Academy of Finland at the EUI (Florence, Italy)
                                    (self-employed posted to Italy under the Finnish law)
Duties: Research and delivery of a manuscript in EU law; annual reporting to the Academy.

15/11/2008 - 15/07/2009: Internship in the European Food Safety Authority (Parma, Italy)
Research projects: Ownership of Scientific Data in EFSA
                            EFSA and the Legal Dimensions of Identification of Emerging Risks
Guidance: Dr. Hubert Deluycker (Head of Directorate for Scientific Cooperation and Assistance),
                Professor Ralf Reintjes (Emerging Risks Unit), Dirk Detken (Head of Legal&Policy Unit)

01/09/2007 - 30/04/2008: Visiting researcher
                                     Institut d'Etudes Européennes, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Main duties: Research in national and European immigration law.

01/03/2007 - 31/05/2007: Assistant MEP
                                     European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Main duties: Followed the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; administration.

10/01/2006 - 14/07/2006: Sequence of three internships with MEPs (Greens, ALDE and GUE)
                                     European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Main duties: Followed the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs; edited web sites,
                   participated in organizing international conferences and meetings; legal research;
                   drafted texts, voting lists and amendments; followed plenary sessions in Strasbourg.

EDUCATION

18/09/2015: PhD, Department of Law, European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
Thesis title: Constitutional Choices of EU Migration Law
Supervisor Marise Cremona, Second reader Dennis Patterson
Specialized Courses: Academy of European Law Certificate 09/07/2010 (EU and HR Law modules)
23/09/2011: EUI Teaching Skills Certificate (European University Institute, Florence, Italy)

24/06/2010: LL.M. European University Institute (Florence, Italy)

28/08/2009: Licentiate degree, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Thesis: EU and the Single Market: Free Movement of Third-Country Workers?
Academic Guidance: Professor Hannu Honka

2007-2008: Certificate in European Immigration and Asylum Law
                 Odysseus Academic Network, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Academic Guidance: Professor Achilles Skordas

27/02/2004: Master of Economic Sciences
Department of Law, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Thesis title: Products Liability in the EU and USA: a comparative analysis.
Exchange studies: LUISS Guido Carli, Rome, Italy: 2003;
                            Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm, Sweden: 2002;
                            Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy: 2001;
                            Université d’Eté de Perpignan, France: 1999.
Specialization: International Trade Law; International Business

19/06/1997 High School Diploma
High School under the Embassy of Russia in Finland (Helsinki);
International Baccalaureate, Turku, Finland.

28/06/1994 Certificate of Promotion
Big Bear Middle School, Big Bear City, CA, USA.

PUBLICATIONS

In the Image of State: Constitutional Complexities Of Engineering a European Democracy
in F.Fabbrini, E.Hirsch Ballin and H.Somsen (eds.) What Form of Government for the European Union and the Eurozone? (2015) Hart Publishing

Constitutional Complexities of European Democracy in Light of the 2014 EP Elections
Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien (Europa-Institut der Universität des Saarlandes) ZEuS 4/2014, 443-460

This Time It's Different? Constitutional Complexities of the Spitzenkandidaten Arrangement
Berlin e-Working Papers on European Law Nr. 95 (12.06.2014) Feie Universität Berlin

Governance of Migration in the EU: Home Affairs or Foreign Policy? Guest editorial of a special issue of the European Journal of Migration and Law 15 (2013) 239-243

Another Legal Monster? An EUI debate on the Fiscal Compact Treaty (editor and contributor) EUI Working Paper LAW 2012/09
Conclusion reposted as The Fiscal Compact Treaty disempowers national parliaments and undermines trust between the peoples of Europe (7 May 2012) on LSE blog

Subsidiarity after Lisbon: Federalism without a Purpose?, in L.Azoulai, L. Boucon and F.-X. Millet Deconstructing EU Federalism through Competences, EUI Working Paper LAW 2012/06

Regulation that Defies Gravity: Policy, Economics and Law of Legal Immigration in Europe, European Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 4 Issue 2, Autumn 2011

EFSA and Identification of Emerging Risks, European Food and Feed Law Review, Issue 3, June 2010, pp. 144-155

Data Ownership and Access Rights in the European Food Safety Authority, European Food and Feed Law Review, Issue 5, October 2009, pp. 237 - 248

What Intra-Community Mobility for Third-Country Workers?, European Law Review, Issue 6, December 2008, pp. 913 - 926

2007-2008: newspaper columnist for Turun Ylioppilaslehti (Finland)

CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS

19.10.2012: Governance of Migration in the EU: Home Affairs or External Policy?: conference under the auspices of the Academy of European Law and the EUI Presidency (Florence, Italy)
Presentation and paper: Protection of the Rights of Migrants as a Tool of Interstate Integration

2011-2013: Founder and manager of the European Constitutional Law Working Group,
                 Department of Law, European University Institute (Florence, Italy)

Initiated, organized and chaired the following academic events:

17.10.2013: Constitutions and Transnational Sources of Law: a Comparative Federal Perspective
Guest speakers Professor Vicki Jackson (Harvard Law School) and Assistant Professor Federico Fabbrini (Tilburg Law School), discussed by Professor Dennis Patterson (EUI)

21.01.2013: In Search for the Master of the Treaties / New Procedure before the CJEU
Twofold discussion session with CJEU Judge Allan Rosas

6.12.2012: Case C-370/12 Pringle and the European Stability Mechanism
Guest speaker: Professor Alan Dashwood (University of Cambridge)

28.11.2012: The Many Constitutions for Europe
Guest speakers: Professors Kaarlo Tuori (Helsinki University) and Miguel Poiares Maduro (Director Global Governance Programme, EUI)

23.11.2012: Case C-364/10 Hungary v Slovakia, a debate with the participation of Professors Jo Shaw (School of Law, University of Edinburgh), Loïc Azoulai (Law Department, EUI), Marise Cremona (Law Department, EUI), Philippe DeBruycker (Migration Policy Center, EUI), Robert Schütze (Durham Law School)

05.05.2012: The Grand Constitutional Trio: European Constitutionalism Ten Years from the Convention on the Future of Europe, a debate with the participation of Professors Giuliano Amato, Bruno De Witte and Jacques Ziller, EUI (Florence, Italy)

12.02.2012: The EU and Its Juridic Monsters: a Debate on the Fiscal Compact Treaty, with the participation of Professors Loic Azoulai, Miguel Poiares Maduro, Bruno De Witte, Marise Cremona and Anna Hyvärinen, EUI (Florence, Italy)

TALKS AND LECTURES

02.07.2015: Public Law in an Uncertain World
International Society of Public Law Annual Conference, NYC, USA
Presentation: Transformation of Peace in the Constitutional Construct of Europe

27.06.2014: Rethinking the Boundaries of Public Law and Public Space
International Society of Public Law Inaugural Conference, Florence, Italy
Presentation and paper: Loyalty in the Constitutional Construction of the European Public Space

06.06.2014: What Form of Government for the European Union and the Eurozone?
Tilburg Law School, the Netherlands
Presentation and paper: Politicizing the Commission: Legitimate, Constitutional and Democratic?

18-29/03/2013: EuroCollege, University of Tartu (Estonia)
Guest lecturer for undergrad and Master courses: EU Migration and Asylum Law and Policy, External Dimension of EU Immigration Law and Policy

26.10.2012: Standard of Review in International Courts and Tribunals - Rethinking the Fragmentation and Constitutionalization of International Law: COST workshop, Faculty of Law, University of Seville (Spain)
Presentation and paper: Equal before the Law? Nationality of Interest Holder and the Standard of Review by the CJEU

27.09.2012: Democracy and Law in Europe: conference, Center of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Policy, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Presentation and paper: A Note on Democratic Legitimacy of Union Powers after Lisbon

06.10.2011: Regulation of Innovations, 5th International European Food and Feed Law Conference (Berlin, Germany)
Presentation: EFSA and the Identification of Emerging Risks

14.06.2011: Deconstructing Federalism Through Competences: workshop by Loic Azoulai
Presentation and Paper: Subsidiarity after Lisbon: Common Yet Own Immigration Policy?

06.05.2011: EU Immigration Law: seminar by Giuliano Amato
                  Guest lecture: Labor Immigration in EU Law: the Recent Directives

14.10.2010: L'organisation institutionnelle de l'Union Européenne à l'aune du Traité de Lisbonne, Institut de Sciences Politiques Louvain-Europe, Belgium
Presentation and Paper: Subsidiarité après Lisbonne: Exemple de l'Immigration dans l'ELSJ.

16.04.2010: European Integration between Trade and Non-Trade, University of Maastricht
Presentation and Paper: Identification of Emerging Risks in EU Food Safety Regulation.

14.02.2009: International Studies Association Annual Conference, NY City, USA
                Constructing and Imagining Labor Migration, workshop organized by Elspeth Guild
Presentation and paper: Competitiveness and Control: Capacity of the European Countries to Select Migration.

18.04.2008: 5th Challenge Training School, Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium
Presentation and paper: On Workers, Nationality, and What It Means for State Sovereignty and the Internal Market.

05.04.2008: "Managing Migration: the neglected face of globalization?" Goodenough College, London, UK
Presentation: Visionary or Politically Feasible? EU Agenda on Economic Migration.

10.12.2007: Center for Migration Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
                  Guest lecture: What Intra-Community Mobility of Third-Country Workers?

From 2011: Licensed art and history guide for Florence, Italy (Italian, English, Russian, French)
                 over 2000 hours of experience

2009-2015: Manager of the EUI Hiking Club, EUI, (Florence, Italy)
Organized and led 64 hikes in Tuscany, Sicily and Liguria

2010-2015: Founder and manager of the EUI Art Visits, EUI (Florence, Italy)
Organized and guided 169 visits and special openings in Florence
Tour accounts and reviews