Pavel Ivlev, Russian attorney and political refugee. He graduated from Law Faculty at Moscow State University in 1993, studied law at Columbia University, New York, and at Queen Mary University of London. From 1994, he provided legal advice to the Yukos oil company and its CEO, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In 1997, Pavel Ivlev became a partner in the ALM Feldmans law firm that was later destroyed by Russian law-enforcement authorities in the context of the Yukos case. In 2004, as a result of wrongful persecution, Ivlev was forced to leave Russia for New York City, where in 2009 he founded the Committee for Russian Economic Freedom to campaign for free market and civic freedoms in Russia.
Education
1987 – 1993 Moscow State (Lomonosov) University, Moscow, Russia
Faculty of Law
1995 Centre of Commercial Law Studies, Queen Marry College, University of London, London, UK
1994 Columbia University Summer Law School, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Work experience
2009 - present Committee for Russian Economic Freedom
http://russianeconomicfreedom.org/
Founder and Chairman
2005 – present Feldmans Consulting, 2148 Ocean Avenue, Suite 602, Brooklyn, NY 11229
Principal
2012 – present Kaganer and Partners Collegium of Advocates, 6-1 Bogorodsky Val, Moscow
107076, Russia
Attorney at Law
2016 – present KRES Poliskola, Brivibas Iela, 46-1A, Riga, LV-1011, Latvia
https://krespoliskola.com/
Director
2018 – present SIA Feldmans, Brivibas Iela, 46-1A, Riga, LV-1011, Latvia
Principal
2015 – 2016 Riga Graduate School of Law, Alberta Iela, 13, Riga, Latvia
Visiting lecturer
2010 – 2012 Institute of Modern Russia, Inc., 321 W 29th Street, Suite 908, New York
NY 10001
Executive director
1996 – 2012 ALM Feldmans Advocates Bureau, 6/1 Sechenovsky per, Moscow
119034, Russia
Attorney at Law, from 1997 – Partner
2004 – 2006 AB Mazeikiai Nafta, Mazeikiai, Lithuania
Member of the Supervisory Council
1992 – 1996 Kheifets Binetsky Kheifets Law Firm, Moscow, Russia
from 1993 – Attorney at Law, Member of the Moscow City Bar
- Moscow State Open University, Moscow, Russia
Visiting lecturer
Professional affiliation
1993 – present Moscow City Chamber of Advocates, 43 Sivtsev Vrazhek, Moscow, Russia
Advocate, registration number 77/6302
Publications
2011 “U.S. businesses should push for reform in Russia” http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-05/news/ct-perspec-1005-russia-20111005_1_prime-minister-vladimir-putin-business-leaders-russian-citizens
2012 “Time is running out for economic reform in Russia”
http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/28/time-is-running-out-for-economic-reform-in-russia/
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Ivlev
Academic presentations
“Human Rights and Political Prisoners in Russia: A View from the Khodorkovsky Case”. University of Pennsylvania Law School, December 7, 2006
“Lack of Independence of Judges in Russia: Yukos Case Example”. University of Wisconsin (Madison) Law School Conference on Textures of Legality in Developing and Transitional Societies, April 23-25, 2010
“U.S.-Russia Relations: Stagnation of Modernization”. Presenter in a panel on inadequacies of Russia’s legal system and human rights record and their implications for U.S – Russian relations. May 9, 2011. Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C.
“The Russian Legal System”. University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, February 27, 2012
“Trade in Your Rights: Russia's March to Sovereign Democracy”. New York University School of Law, New York, NY, October 10, 2012
“Crisis in Ukraine: Four Perspectives”. Presenter at a panel discussion, New York University School of Law, New York, NY, February 10, 2014
“Erosion of Rights in Russia: a Lawyer’s Perspective”. Lecture at the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, February 18, 2014
“Putin’s plan Barbarossa”. Presentation at the conference All Eyes on Ukraine: Perspectives on the Unfolding Crisis, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, March 27, 2014
“Law and Lawlessness in Today’s Russia” presentation at the Symposium on Art and Politics in Contemporary Russia, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, October 30, 2014
“Abuse of Interpol Red Notices System by Russian Federation” presentation at the panel discussion on Escalation of Authoritarianism and Legal Environment in Russia, New York University School of Law, New York, NY, April 13, 2015
“Fate of a Corporate Lawyer in an Authoritarian State” lecture at the Riga Graduate School of Law, Riga, Latvia, October 15, 2015
“Mutual Legal Assistance” lecture at the Riga Graduate School of Law, Riga, Latvia, November 9, 2016
“Pipe Dream: Yukos’ Journey from an Oil Giant to Leading a Lifetime of Litigation”. Speaker at a panel discussion, American Bar Association Section of International Law Conference, Washington D.C., April 26, 2017
“Russia’s Interference in the US Judiciary”. Speaker at a panel discussion, Atlantic Council, Washington D.C., July 19, 2018
“Political Exiles in New York: Russian Opposition Efforts From Abroad”. Speaker at a panel discussion, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, November 29, 2018
“Russia after Putin: Disintegration is Inevitable” presentation at the panel Russia after the 2018 Presidential Elections: New Tasks and Old Problems at 50th ASEEES Convention, Boston, MA, December 7, 2018
Quoted for articles in:
New York Times, published May 23, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/opinion/24nocera.html?_r=0
Financial Times, published April 18, 2012
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8b0c869e-8977-11e1-85af-00144feab49a.html#axzz29DuPF3hK
Vanity Fair, published April 2012
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/politics/2012/04/vladimir-putin-mikhail-khodorkovsky-russia
The Weekly Standard, published March 2, 2015
http://www.weeklystandard.com/putins-long-arm/article/859638
The Atlantic, published May 30, 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/russia-interpol-abuse/561539/
Acknowledgements
Prof. Richard Sakwa, Putin and the Oligarch: the Khodorkovsky-Yukos Affair, I.B. Taurus, 2014
http://www.amazon.com/Putin-Oligarchs-The-Khodorkovsky-Yukos-Affair/dp/1780764596
