Dmitrii Belkin earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 2000 and is an academic researcher at Humboldt University, Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Frankfurt. During his four months at Harvard (February–May 2008), Belkin will research the topic “From Law to Legality: Jewish Legal Culture in Ukraine, 1905–32.” The study’s main focus will be Jewish politicians, jurists and “ordinary people” in their interrelations with Jewish society and the Russian/Ukrainian government, and will examine the continuity of Jewish legal culture in Ukraine before and after the Revolution of 1917. Belkin also plans to analyze the complex relationships informing public policy, religion, and legal practices.