Anton Asoskov is Professor in the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law of the Lomonosov Moscow State University and Professor in the Department of Private International Law of the Alexeev Research Centre of Private Law in Moscow, Russia. Daria Levina is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and a PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Milana Karayanidi is a special legal consultant at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in Washington D.C., USA.