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30.06.2022
12:15–13:45
Law in a Multipolar World
Congress Centre, Congress Hall
Broadcast Moderator
Alexandra Suvorova
Anchor, Russia 24 TV Channel
Panellists
Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Maja Popovic
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia
Kumar Prashant
President, The Bar Association of India
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov
Vice-President, Russian Association of International Law; Vice-Chairperson of the Committee Against Torture
Broadcast
Alexandra Suvorova
Anchor, Russia 24 TV Channel
Dmitry Medvedev
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Maja Popovic
Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia
She was born in 1972 in Belgrade, where she finished elementary school. She finished high school in Spain at the English college Baleares International School where classes were held in Spanish and English and where she was a student of the generation.
She enrolled at the Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1989 and completed the studies at the age of 21. That year, she was the youngest graduate student at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.
She passed the bar exam in 1996 at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia.
She obtained a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad with a grade point average of 9.80.
In the period from 1994 to 1995 she worked as a trainee at the attorney’s office of Vesna Kusic, after which she worked from 1995 to 1998 as a trainee judge and associate judge at the District Court in Belgrade.
At the age of 26 she was elected a judge of the First Municipal Court in Belgrade, as the youngest judge ever elected in our country. She acted as an investigating judge and as president of the panel of judges in the civil department.
From 2000 to 2012 she worked as a lawyer in her own attorney’s office.
From 2012 to 2014 she was employed at the City Institute for Emergency Medical Aid as assistant director for non-medical affairs.
She joined the Security and Intelligence Agency in 2014. During her service at the Agency, she was assigned to the Directorate for International Cooperation - Department for Contacts with Foreign Security Intelligence Services and Institutions - Groups of America and Europe, as the Chief Inspector. After that, she was assigned to the Directorate for Human Resources, System Legal, Property and Housing Affairs to the position of Head of the Department for System Legal, Normative, Property Legal and Housing Relations.
She was assigned to the position of Head of Office of the Director of the Security and Intelligence Agency in 2015.
In 2018 she was assigned to the position of Advisor to the Director of the Security and Intelligence Agency, and in October 2020 she was appointed Special Advisor to the Director of the Security and Intelligence Agency. She still holds this position in the capacity of authorised officer.
She speaks English, Spanish, Italian and French.
She passed TOELF test, which is a test proving the highest level of proficiency in the English language for non-native English speakers.
She is married and a mother of two children.
She enrolled at the Belgrade Faculty of Law in 1989 and completed the studies at the age of 21. That year, she was the youngest graduate student at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade.
She passed the bar exam in 1996 at the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Serbia.
She obtained a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad with a grade point average of 9.80.
In the period from 1994 to 1995 she worked as a trainee at the attorney’s office of Vesna Kusic, after which she worked from 1995 to 1998 as a trainee judge and associate judge at the District Court in Belgrade.
At the age of 26 she was elected a judge of the First Municipal Court in Belgrade, as the youngest judge ever elected in our country. She acted as an investigating judge and as president of the panel of judges in the civil department.
From 2000 to 2012 she worked as a lawyer in her own attorney’s office.
From 2012 to 2014 she was employed at the City Institute for Emergency Medical Aid as assistant director for non-medical affairs.
She joined the Security and Intelligence Agency in 2014. During her service at the Agency, she was assigned to the Directorate for International Cooperation - Department for Contacts with Foreign Security Intelligence Services and Institutions - Groups of America and Europe, as the Chief Inspector. After that, she was assigned to the Directorate for Human Resources, System Legal, Property and Housing Affairs to the position of Head of the Department for System Legal, Normative, Property Legal and Housing Relations.
She was assigned to the position of Head of Office of the Director of the Security and Intelligence Agency in 2015.
In 2018 she was assigned to the position of Advisor to the Director of the Security and Intelligence Agency, and in October 2020 she was appointed Special Advisor to the Director of the Security and Intelligence Agency. She still holds this position in the capacity of authorised officer.
She speaks English, Spanish, Italian and French.
She passed TOELF test, which is a test proving the highest level of proficiency in the English language for non-native English speakers.
She is married and a mother of two children.
Kumar Prashant
President, The Bar Association of India
Prashant Kumar was President of LAWASIA from 2015-2017. A policy economist turned lawyer, Mr Prashant Kumar specialises in constitutional law, commercial and civil matters, arbitration and intellectual property, as well as matters relating to information technology law, infrastructure agreements, public-private partnerships and anti-dumping laws.
Mr Kumar's law firm seconded three domain consultants to the Asian Development Bank led project team to carry out IT reform in the Delhi judiciary as a pilot project in 2003-2005 and he actively engages in assisting infusion of technology in judicial systems on informal basis.
P Kumar, Profile
He has taken keen interest in using technology to carry out legal processes and his firm has developed and worked successfully IT based dispute resolution model for resolving mass auto loan disputes in which statements of claim and documentation is generated in a fully automated manner involving a range of legal and fact variations. Arbitrators are also made available award assist programme, which produces a template award which arbitrators can validate, improve and utilise as a base to pass an appropriate award.
Mr Kumar heads KPA Legal, a boutique law firm with a clientele that includes MNCs and major corporate houses in India.
Mr Kumar is a Life Member of both the Bar Association of India and the Supreme Court Bar Association. He has held various positions in the Bar Association of India and currently serves as its President Elect.
Mr Kumar's law firm seconded three domain consultants to the Asian Development Bank led project team to carry out IT reform in the Delhi judiciary as a pilot project in 2003-2005 and he actively engages in assisting infusion of technology in judicial systems on informal basis.
P Kumar, Profile
He has taken keen interest in using technology to carry out legal processes and his firm has developed and worked successfully IT based dispute resolution model for resolving mass auto loan disputes in which statements of claim and documentation is generated in a fully automated manner involving a range of legal and fact variations. Arbitrators are also made available award assist programme, which produces a template award which arbitrators can validate, improve and utilise as a base to pass an appropriate award.
Mr Kumar heads KPA Legal, a boutique law firm with a clientele that includes MNCs and major corporate houses in India.
Mr Kumar is a Life Member of both the Bar Association of India and the Supreme Court Bar Association. He has held various positions in the Bar Association of India and currently serves as its President Elect.
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov
Vice-President, Russian Association of International Law; Vice-Chairperson of the Committee Against Torture
Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov is Professor of International Law, Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law, Deputy Chairperson of the Committee against Torture, member of the Council of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, member of editorial boards of the Russian Yearbook of International Law and of the International Review of the Red Cross. His former postings include senior staff member of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, trial judge at the UN ICTR, appeals judge at the UN ICTR/ICTY, Civil Affairs Officer with the UN Peace Forces in the former Yugoslavia. He served as ad hoc judge at the ECHR in the case of “Ukraine v. Russia” (2019 – 2021). He holds two degrees in international law from the Moscow State Institute of International Law and an LL.M from Harvard Law School. His professorial experience includes teaching at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague Academy of International Law, University of Virginia School of Law, other universities in Russia and elsewhere.