Business programme
21.05.2025
10:00–11:30

The Institute of State and Law: 100 Years of Service to the Nation

Justice Quarter, conference hall E10
Events on the Sidelines of the Forum
Broadcast
The Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the country’s leading scientific legal centre that conducts research about theoretical problems of state and law, is marking its 100th anniversary in spring 2025. The institute is widely known for its fundamental and applied research, as well as its outstanding scientists, who made an enormous contribution to the formation of the Soviet state and law, the creation of the legal foundations of the International Military Tribunal that convicted Nazi criminals, and the post-war international system and its bodies (the UN and others), and also ensured the development of domestic law and legislation, including pioneering the creation of a number of branches of domestic legal science.

Moderator

Alexander Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Panellists

Aleksey Aleksandrov
Chairman of the Commission on Legal Culture and Professional Ethics, Russian Lawyers Association; Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Bastrykin
Chairman, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Sergey Kabyshev
Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Science and Higher Education
Andrey Lisitsyn-Svetlanov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Elena Malysheva
Head, National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation
Ilgam Ragimov
President, Black Sea-Caspian Sea Lawyers Association
Valery Fadeev
Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation; Chairman, Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
Olga Chupris
Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Front row participants

Igor Butrim
Leading Researcher, Sector of Procedural Law, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Sergey Malikov
Deputy Director for Research, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Konstantin Chaika
Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Broadcast

Alexander Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Director of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; Fellow Correspondent of Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Russian statesman, and legal scholar.
Professional background:
Since 1985, served in a Military Prosecutor’s Office, since 1994 in the Chief Military Prosecutor’s Office. He headed Military Prosecutor’s offices of the Siberian and Moscow military command regions. In 2002 he was appointed First Deputy Chief Military Prosecutor.
On 10 June 2002, the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation appointed Mr Savenkov Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation – Chief Military Prosecutor.
2006–2008 First Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation.
2009–2013 Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation for the Vladimir Region.
In 2014, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation – Head of the Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 2017, he took leadership of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Merits, awards, achievements:
He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Motherland 3rd and 4th degrees, Order of Alexander Nevsky and Order of Honour. He is a recipient of more than 50 medals and departmental awards of Russia and foreign countries. He was honoured with Recognition Certificates by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation and the Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Aleksey Aleksandrov
Chairman of the Commission on Legal Culture and Professional Ethics, Russian Lawyers Association; Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Alexander Bastrykin
Chairman, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Sergey Kabyshev
Chairman of the Committee of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on Science and Higher Education
Andrey Lisitsyn-Svetlanov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Gennadyevich Lisitsyn-Svetlanov is the Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov was born in Moscow in 1951. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1973. He studied at Columbia Law School in New York (USA) in 1986–1987 and earned a Master’s degree in law (LL.M). He studied at the graduate school of the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences from 1973–1976. He defended his thesis “Review of disputes in international industrial, scientific and technical cooperation” in 1977 and his doctoral dissertation “Modern trends in the development of international civil proceedings” in 2002. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov has worked at the Institute of State and Law since 1977 and has been the Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences since March 2004. He was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008 and a full member in 2011. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov’s scientific interests include problems in international private law, international civil proceedings, intellectual property and the legal regulation of foreign investments. Lisitsyn-Svetlanov has made a significant contribution to the development of alternative procedures to litigation for settling disputes that arise in international economic relations. He has been selected as an arbiter in international commercial arbitration as part of major cases in Russia and abroad. He has been practicing law for 25 years.
Elena Malysheva
Head, National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation
Ilgam Ragimov
President, Black Sea-Caspian Sea Lawyers Association
Valery Fadeev
Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation; Chairman, Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
Olga Chupris
Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Republic of Belarus
Igor Butrim
Leading Researcher, Sector of Procedural Law, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Sergey Malikov
Deputy Director for Research, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Konstantin Chaika
Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1982-1987 – a teacher, director of a secondary school.
1987-2000 – held various positions in the prosecutor's office of the Kamchatka region from trainee, assistant of prosecutor of the Milkovskiy district of the Kamchatka region to the prosecutor of the Kamchatka region.
2000-2006 – Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
State Counselor of Justice, I (First) class.
April, 2006 – appointed Deputy Head; State Secretary - Deputy Head of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision of Russia.
From November 2008 to February 2012 held the posts of Deputy Head; State Secretary - Deputy Head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation.
Lieutenant-General of the Customs Service.
From 2012 to 2014 – the Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Community.
Since January 1, 2015 – the Judge of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Since January 2021 – Deputy Chairman of the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union.
PhD in Juridical sciences. Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation.
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