Mw. Anna Ogorodova
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room: D0.207
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (0)43 3883084
E-mailadress: a.ogorodova@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
Anna Ogorodova holds a law degree from Tomsk State University in Russia (2003) and LLM in Human Rights from Central European University in Budapest (2004). In 2004-2009 she worked at the Open Society Justice Initiative, a law reform program of the Open Society Institute (international private foundation). At the Justice Initiative she worked on projects aiming to reform national criminal justice systems, with particular focus on free legal assistance for criminal defendants and pre-trial detention. In this capacity, she participated in an number of empirical research projects examining access, quality and impact of legal and paralegal assistance in Bulgaria, Sierra Leone, Ukraine and other countries. She also coordinated the development of experimental – for the given regions - models of criminal legal aid provision, such as “public defenders” or paralegals, in several countries of Central and Eastern Europe, former USSR and Africa. Public defenders are a team of lawyers who work full-time exclusively for poor clients, receive a fixed salary and are organisationally united in an office. Paralegals are persons who do not have formal legal education (attorney’s certificate), but who are trained to provide a range of community justice services and legal advice in fairly simple matters. Since 2006, Anna has been involved in a project “Promoting Effective Criminal Defence Rights in the European Union”, a collaborative effort of several institutions including the Law Faculty of Maastricht University (Prof. Taru Spronken).
In January 2010 Anna has started as a PhD student at the Law Faculty of Maastricht University, Criminal Law and Criminology department. Anna works under the supervision of Profs. Taru Spronken and Ed Cape, University of the West of England, on a thesis entitled “The Role of Defence and Impact of Legal Advice and Representation at Police Stations”. The study, socio-legal in nature, will examine the role of defence and impact of legal assistance during police custody proceedings. In particular, the study aims to ascertain whether and how legal assistance at police stations affects police conduct and suspects’ perceptions of procedural fairness. The research will also explore whether legal representation in police custody impacts the prevalence of invalidated confessions, early (pre-trial) case settlements and pre-trial detention. Data for the study will be collected from two, or possibly three, European countries - England and Wales, the Netherlands and possibly one Eastern European country.
Research Interests
- Criminal legal aid
- Human rights in criminal proceedings
- Comparative criminal procedure
