Ilya Kokorin

Bio:

Ilya Kokorin was born on 29 May 1987 in the small Siberian town of Krasnoyarsk-26, which was later renamed Zheleznogorsk after the collapse of the USSR. He studied law and history at Tomsk State University in Tomsk (Russia), comparative constitutional law at Central European University (Hungary), and civil and commercial law at Leiden University (the Netherlands). In addition to his academic pursuits, he also gained experience in legal practice working at national and international law firms. In March 2017, Ilya came to the Netherlands to work as a lecturer (docent) in the department of Company Law (Ondernemingsrecht) at Leiden Law School. Over a period of two years, he gave lectures on international insolvency law, comparative corporate law and international commercial law.

In February 2019, Ilya embarked on his academic career as a PhD candidate (promovendus) at the Department of Financial Law at Leiden University, under the supervision of Prof. Matthias Haentjens and Prof. Reinout Vriesendorp. This position was funded by the Stichting Hazelhoff Van Huet and the Meijers Research Institute. As a PhD candidate, Ilya was actively involved in teaching and/or coordinating courses on banking and finance transactions, capital markets, and EU financial law. He also supervised the theses of bachelor and master students.

Ilya is an active participant in the Digital Assets Project at the University of Oxford. He is a member of III NextGen, Younger Academics Network of Insolvency Law (YANIL) of INSOL Europe, Young Researchers Group of the European Banking Institute (EBI) and chairs the Early Researcher Academics group at INSOL International (INSOL ERA). He coaches Leiden University teams in the Ian Fletcher International Insolvency Law Moot and currently holds a position as Assistant Professor (universitair docent) at the Department of Financial Law at Leiden University.