Prof. Aleksei Vorona

Prof. Aleksei Vorona

Assistant Professor

LL.B.; LL.M. (St. Petersburg University, School of Law);

LL.M. (University of Hamburg, School of Law);

EMLE (University of Hamburg, Ghent University, LUMSA University); LL.M. (University of Illinois, College of Law);

Ph.D. Candidate (St. Petersburg University, School of Law)

Mr. Aleksei Vorona is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School. He did his Bachelor in Law at Saint Petersburg State University. While studying, he founded and headed the Debate Club at the Law School, which later became the most successful Russian debate club (ranking-wise). Then Prof. Vorona obtained four master’s degrees from high-ranked European and American universities.

Before joining O.P. Jindal Global University, Prof. Vorona worked as a senior lawyer at PJSC BANK URALSIB, where he was involved in the financing review process, legal risks analysis and regulation assessment for the Association of Banks of Russia.

While practising law, Prof. Vorona also finished two of three years in the Saint Petersburg State University Ph.D. program. The topic of his Ph.D. thesis is “Protection of a weak party in a civil law relation: comparative law research”. Working on his Ph.D. thesis, Prof. Vorona wrote two master theses on specific issues of protection of a weak party in a contract.

Prof. Vorona’s main interest in research and teaching lies in the economic analysis of law, contract law and theory, and human rights law and theory.