Business programme
29.06.2022
14:30–16:00

Law and Order: Values and Principles Amidst the Global Challenges of Our Time

Congress Centre, conference hall D3
People and Law
Broadcast
As the legal field continues to evolve, so legal values are changing over time. It is crucial to underscore the importance of law as a universal social regulator, and all the more so at this difficult time. Law and society are undergoing a transformation brought about by a multitude of factors and events. We are, to an extent, witnessing the disintegration of the international legal framework. This session will focus on identifying the legal guidelines and legal education fundamentals required to uphold stable legal systems and increase cooperation between countries on legal matters. What awaits the field of law and order in the immediate future? How can law act as a shield against global upheavals? What legal principles and values will society place at the fore in the future?

Moderator

Denis Smola
Deputy Executive Director - Chief of Staff, Association of Lawyers of Russia

Panellists

Elena Avakyan
Vice President, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Alexey Guznov
Secretary of State – Deputy Chairman, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Andrey Klishas
Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Yury Melnikov
Commissioner for Human Rights in the Primorsky Territory
Zhang Mingqi
Vice-President, General Secretary, China Law Society (online)
Kumar Prashant
President, The Bar Association of India

Broadcast

Denis Smola
Deputy Executive Director - Chief of Staff, Association of Lawyers of Russia
Elena Avakyan
Vice President, The Russian Federal Bar Association
Elena Avakyan is the Executive Director of the Non-Profit Partnership for Advancement of Corporate Law.
Since 2019, Elena has been a member of the Federal Chamber of Lawyers Council. Since 2018, she served on the Expert Council on Legislative Support for the Development of the Securities Market and Derivative Financial Instruments under the Committee of the State Duma for Financial Markets.
From 2006 to 2014, Elena served as the head of Control and Analytic Directorate at the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation. She was one of the ideologists of the e-justice project in Russia and one of its managers.
In 2004–2005, Elena was the chairwoman of the board of the National Association of Securities Market Participants. In 1999–2004, she was the head of Legal Control Service and vice president of Renaissance-Capital. Before that, she worked as a general counsel of the board of the St Petersburg Stock Exchange.
At various times, Elena served as a financial market legislation expert for the FAS of Russia and Ministry of Finance, corporate governance expert for the Ministry of Economic Development, expert for the State Duma Committee on Credit Organizations and Financial Markets and Council of the Federation Committee on Financial Markets and Money Circulation as well as an expert of the Property Committee of the RF State Duma, an assistant to the Committee chairperson and assistant to a deputy of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-Building. Since 2011, she is a member of the working group on multi-purpose centers. She took part in the drafting of a concept of new civil legislation.
Elena is a member of all working groups at the Skolkovo competence centres in each of the focus areas of the Digital Economy national programme; she leads a small working group on the concept of an ‘electronic document’ within the Skolkovo working groups.
Alexey Guznov
Secretary of State – Deputy Chairman, The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Born on 18 June 1967 in Gorky.

Education
1990: graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Candidate of Juridical Sciences (1994); Doctor of Juridical Sciences (2016).

Author of over 80 publications on the theory of law and financial regulation, including tutorials and monographs.

Career
1984–1985: Assembly Mechanic at the Gorky Institute Salyut, Gorky.

1985–1990: student at the the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow.

1990–1991: Legal Advisor (contractor) at the Leisure Centre of the Oktyabrsky District, Moscow.

1991: Legal Team Leader at the International Association of Parliamentarians, Moscow.

1991–1992: Assistant to the Chairman of the Council of the Union of the USSR Supreme Council, Moscow.

1992–1994: Planning Team Leader, Deputy Chief of the Parliamentarianism Section at the Parliamentary Centre of the Russian Federation, Moscow.

1995–1997: Deputy Head of Section, Head of Section in the Banking Legislation Division of the Legal Department at the Bank of Russia, Moscow.

1997–1998: Deputy Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

1998–2002: Deputy Director — Head of the Division for Legal Support of Banking Operations of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

2002–2014: Deputy Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

2014–2022: Director of the Bank of Russia’s Legal Department, Moscow.

Since 2022: State Secretary — Deputy Governor of Bank of Russia.

Member of the Bank of Russia Board of Directors (since 10 October 2018).

He holds the title of Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation; the medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ 2nd class; awards of the Federation Council and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; and awards of Russian ministries. Themis Award winner.
Andrey Klishas
Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Yury Melnikov
Commissioner for Human Rights in the Primorsky Territory
Zhang Mingqi
Vice-President, General Secretary, China Law Society
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.
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