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Marianna Bezhanyan

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I am a J.D./LL.M. candidate in International and Comparative Law at Duke University School of Law and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.

My research focuses on international law, national security, and international trade, with particular interests in economic sanctions and export controls. My current work examines U.S. semiconductor export licensing regimes as applied to post-Soviet countries.

Prior to law school, my research focused on immigration law, migration policy, and government surveillance. I have conducted legal research in both academic and professional settings, including at an international law firm and the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration.

This website features my publications, research projects, and professional work.

Research & Working Papers

The IRS and ICE Memorandum of
Understanding of April 2025

UCLA Undergraduate Law Journal

Protest, Mutual Aid and Diasporic Belonging:   Russian Immigrant Integration Through Navalny LA (Part I)

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Research under supervision of professor Cecilia Menjivar, UCLA CSIM

Refugees as the Praxis of Man-3: On Statelessness and the Architecture of Exclusion 

 

The Generation: UCLA Journal of Global Affairs (March 2025)
 

Centralization by Exception (U.S.) vs.

Centralization by Design (Russia):

Tax Privacy, § 6103, and the IRS–ICE MOU

Research under supervision of professor Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA Law

Racial Profiling in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Lessons from the U.S. and Russia

Available on Medium, written for Amnesty International USA Midwest Regional Activism Conference, October 17, 2025

Three Stories of Torture: What I Witnessed at OVD-info

 

No More Torture (May 25, 2025)

Contact Information

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