Alina-Maria Rogoveanu

Alina-Maria Rogoveanu is a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at VU IIRPS. She is part of the international research project SOCIAL – Sociology of Authoritarian Law: Insights from Central Asia, coordinated by Lund University and funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).

Her doctoral research focuses on the sociology of law in post-authoritarian societies, with a particular emphasis on Central Asia, especially Kazakhstan. Her research examines legal education, human rights, and the rule of law, while exploring continuity and change in structures of authority.

She obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Faculty of Law at the University of Craiova in 2022 and her Master’s degree in International Relations and European Studies from the Faculty of European Studies at Babeș-Bolyai University in 2024.

Her professional experience spans the non-governmental, advocacy, and European institutional sectors. She began her career in Romania, working in human rights research and activism. During this time, she contributed to initiatives promoting equality and education, as well as to the development and coordination of national educational and civil society projects. She subsequently worked as a Parliamentary Affairs Trainee at the Permanent Representation of Romania to the European Union in Brussels, where she focused on analysing relations between the Romanian Parliament and the European Parliament. She later worked as a Government Relations Analyst at a multinational company. Alongside her professional and academic activities, she has published literary essays in several Romanian literary magazines.

Research projects and grants

1. Qualitative Interpretative Analysis of Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Legal Education: Continuity and Change in Authority Structures in Kazakhstan, Doctoral Researcher, 1 October 2026 – 30 September 2030, funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), ongoing.
2. Researcher at Vilnius University, representing the university in the international research project SOCIAL (Sociology of Authoritarian Law: Insights from Central Asia), coordinated by Lund University and funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA).