Evgeni Moyakine gained his first Master's degree in International and European Law cum laude at Radboud University Nijmegen and successfully completed the Research Master in Law program at Tilburg University and Leuven University, Belgium, with the same grade point average. In 2010, he was awarded a Mosaic personal grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his PhD research, which was conducted at the Department of European and International Public Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University. In 2014, he became doctor in law with his PhD "The Privatized Art of War: Private Military and Security Companies and State Responsibility for Their Unlawful Conduct in Conflict Areas".
