Oleg Manyuta

Author of legal and financial non-fiction & historical speculative fiction
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Academic writer, Educational writer, Historian, Independent / self-published author, Literary editor, Non-fiction writer, Novelist, Science fiction / fantasy writer
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I’m a lawyer, author and researcher with more than 25 years of experience in international, commercial and financial law. My work has ranged from trust structures and cross-border transactions to blockchain, digital assets and emerging models of digital sovereignty.

Alongside legal practice, I write and research at the intersection of law, history, finance and technology. Increasingly, I am also exploring these themes through fiction.

Writing and Research
My published work includes The Sovereign Order of Malta: Spiritual Knighthood, Legal Sovereignty, and the Afterlife of Empire, an exploration of one of the most unusual examples of sovereignty without conventional territory, and the Financial Markets, Law & Regulation series.

I was scientific editor of the Russian edition of Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz’s A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960 (Vakler, 2007), and am the author of Legal Analysis of the Trust Services Market (2000). My research also covers cryptocurrency regulation, blockchain governance, financial sovereignty and the application of mathematical methods to financial engineering.

Fiction
I am currently writing The Borderless Cipher, a historical speculative thriller set principally in Scotland and moving between the fourteenth century, the present day and a near-future world.

The novel grows out of questions that have long interested me professionally: Can sovereignty exist without territory? Can law survive the institutions that created it? What happens when ancient ideas of jurisdiction collide with digital identity, transhumanism and new conceptions of reality?

Blending historical mystery, legal thriller and speculative fiction, the project explores sovereignty, freedom, time and the boundaries between history and myth.

Current Projects
My current work includes continuing research and writing on financial markets, digital assets and sovereignty; developing further volumes of Financial Markets, Law & Regulation; and completing The Borderless Cipher as my principal fiction project.