Michael Rochlitz took part in this year’s online edition of the annual Seminar ‘Analytical Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications’ which is organized by the Department of Sociology at the LMU together with the Academy of Sociology. On November 17^th Michael presented his paper there, ‘Staying Out of Trouble: Criminal Cases Against Russian Mayors’, co-authored by Noah Buckley, Ora John Reuter and Anton Aisin. The paper was published in the IERP Discussion papers series in July 2020.