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Marianna Bezhanyan

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I am a J.D./LL.M. candidate in International & Comparative Law at Duke University School of Law and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where I studied game design and generative AI as part of the Design Media Arts program.

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My current interests center on privacy, surveillance, and copyright, as well as broader regulatory and national security issues arising from artificial intelligence. I am also particularly interested in the use of biometric technologies in law enforcement and other government contexts.

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Before law school, my research focused primarily on immigration law, migration policy, and government surveillance. I have conducted legal and policy research in both academic and professional settings, including through Amnesty International and the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration.

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This website brings together my publications, research projects, and professional work.

Research & Working Papers

​The IRS and ICE Memorandum of
Understanding of April 2025

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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​

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Research under supervision of professor Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA Law

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

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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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