Dovilė Sagatienė

Mykolas Romeris University (Vilnius – Lithuania)

Dr. Dovilė Sagatienė (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dovil%C4%97-sagatien%C4%97-b5016574/) is legal historian specializing in Soviet legal narratives in the post-communist space, particularly their perception and continuation in modern hybrid warfare. For ten years (2010-2020) she was holding the position of a legal servant at the Supreme Court of Lithuania. In 2013 she defended a doctoral thesis about Soviet courts in Lithuania (1940-1953) and analyzed the Western interpretations of Soviet law at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt (2016). During her Fulbright grant at the Harriman Institute in Columbia University in New York in 2019-2020 she shifted by research focus to the field of International Criminal Law, in particular, to the Genocide Convention (1948) and application to Soviet crimes in Lithuanian during the occupation (1940-1990). In 2020-2023 she took the position of the Vice-Dean for Research at the Law School in Mykolas Romeris University (MRU), and is affiliated as research assistant at MRU since 2023. Since October 2022 dr. Dovilė Sagatienė is also a postdoctoral researcher at MEMOCRACY project (Volkswagen Stiftung, 2021-2024), based at Centre for Military Studies in University of Copenhagen (Denmark).

Her recent publications includes: Memory Laws in the Baltic States, Copenhagen University, Department of Political Science, Centre for Military Studies, 2024, Challenging the ‘Post-Soviet’ Label and Colonial Mindsets. NATO Summit in Vilnius, Verfassungsblog, 2023, World War 2 Memories in Lithuania and Ukraine, Verfassungsblog, 2023, Gorbachev’s Legacy in Lithuania, Verfassungsblog, 2022, Governing the Memory of the Present. Banning Russian War Symbols in Lithuania, Germany, and Poland, Verfassungsblog, 2022, The Transformation of Lithuanian Memories of Soviet Crimes to Genocide Recognition, International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2022, Deconstruction of Soviet Deportations in Lithuania in the Context of the Genocide Convention, International Criminal Law Review, 2021, The Debate about Soviet Genocide in Lithuania in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights, Nationalities Papers, 2020 .

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