Dr Elena Sherstoboeva
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Email
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Location
4SB.4.2, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Dr Elena Sherstoboeva works at the intersection of media law, creative industries and emerging technologies, with a particular focus on the legal regulation of the human voice, performers’ rights and AI-mediated creative labour. Her research examines how voice is governed, protected and commercialised in digital and AI-driven environments, and how legal frameworks respond to the increasing use of synthetic and cloned voices across creative sectors. Before joining Essex Law School, Dr Sherstoboeva held a joint appointment in the School of Creative Media and the School of Law at City University of Hong Kong. She holds two PhDs (Ramon Llull University, Spain; Moscow State University, Russia) and has previously been a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Leeds. She has extensive practitioner experience in media and entertainment law, including contract negotiation and advisory work for artists and creative enterprises engaging with Universal, Sony and Warner. Since 2011, she has also contributed as an independent legal expert to UNESCO, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the BBC World Service Trust. Dr Sherstoboeva is currently developing a UK-facing research programme that integrates doctrinal analysis, knowledge exchange and industry collaboration to address the legal, practical and ethical questions raised by voice technologies and AI-driven performance. She also leads the Entertainment Law Project within the Essex Business Law Clinic, delivered in partnership with the Mercury Theatre (Colchester, UK).
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Freedom of expression
Media Law
Counteracting misinformation
Copyright law
Protection of privacy
Conferences and presentations
The role of law in contemporary Russia: Conditional truth and adaptation of Soviet roots by judicial mythmaking
Invited presentation, International Conference “Resistance, adaptation and circumvention in Russia, Russian-speaking areas and Post- Soviet space: forms, strategies, actors and practices.”, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France, 8/11/2024
Analysing “fake news laws” in the post-truth era: Russia’s judicial mythmaking and methodological insights in legal scholarship
Invited presentation, 115th Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, Bristol, United Kingdom, 3/9/2024
Russian Bans on 'Fake News' about the War in Ukraine: Conditional Truth and Unconditional Loyalty
Invited presentation, Resistances, adaptations and circumventions in contemporary Russian society, literature and culture, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France, 7/6/2024
Russia's Bans on Fake News about the War in Ukraine
Invited presentation, o Roundtable ‘How the conflict in Ukraine could transform global information, communication, and security’, Oxford,, United Kingdom, 26/9/2023
Disinformation and its regulation in Russia: Origins and outcomes for media information
Invited presentation, IAMCR 2023, France, 10/7/2023
The Right to Truthfulness: Counteracting Fake News in Post-Soviet Russia
Invited presentation, IAMCR 2022, IAMCR 2022, Beijing, China, 11/7/2022
'Disinfodemic': Asian responses to “fake news” in times of COVID-19
Invited presentation, 72nd Annual ICA Conference 2022, Paris, France, 29/5/2022
New approach to teaching law to Creative Media and Art students in the digital era
Invited presentation, ALSA Symposium, Hong Kong, HKSAR, 27/4/2021
Artistic freedom in Russia and Ukraine after the Crimea’s Annexation
Invited presentation, 2021 Annual Convention, Storrs, United States, 8/4/2021
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Media Law (LT133)
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Advanced Media Law and Ethics (LT237)
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Comparative Media Law and Regulation (LT431)
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Essex Law Key Skills (LW100)
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Final Year Research Project (LW304)
Publications
Journal articles (5)
Sherstoboeva, E., (2024). Russian Bans on 'Fake News' about the War in Ukraine: Conditional Truth and Unconditional Loyalty. The International Communication Gazette. 86 (1), 36-54
Sherstoboeva, E. and Pavlenko, V., (2021). Trends in East Asian policies on digital surveillance tools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Digital Media & Policy. 12 (1), 47-65
Sherstoboeva, E., (2019). Audiovisual Regulation in Russia in the Context of Council of Europe Standards. Review of Central and East European Law. 44 (3), 366-405
Kiriya, I. and Sherstoboeva, E., (2015). Russian media piracy in the context of censoring practices. International Journal of Communication. 9 (1), 839-851
Sherstoboeva, E., (2014). Media Law Reform in Post-Soviet Turkmenistan The Illusion of Democratization. PROBLEMS OF POST-COMMUNISM. 61 (5), 32-45
Books (1)
(2017). Speech and Society in Turbulent Times. Cambridge University Press. 9781107190122
Book chapters (2)
Sherstoboeva, E., (2020). Regulation of Online Freedom of Expression in Russia in the Context of the Council of Europe Standards. In: Societies and Political Orders in Transition. Springer International Publishing. 83- 100. 9783030330156
Sherstoboeva, E., (2017). The evolution of a Russian concept of free speech. In: Speech and Society in Turbulent Times Freedom of Expression in Comparative Perspective. 213- 234
Conferences (1)
Sherstoboeva, E. and Pavlenko, V., (2018). Freedom of Expression and Regulation of Extremism in Russia in the Context of the Council of Europe Standards
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