Business programme
30.06.2022
16:30–18:00

The Development of Legal Education in the Russian Federation

Congress Centre, conference hall D4
People and Law
Broadcast
Legal education is key to the government’s objective of improving legal awareness among the public. The country’s legal education system plays a crucial role. It has a direct bearing on legal evolution, on public perception, and on the efficiency of all public bodies. The legal system requires a constant influx of qualified, knowledgeable, and professional personnel. It is therefore important to focus on the development of legal education in Russia with the goal of training specialists for work at public bodies. Other aims include developing criteria and approaches to training legal specialists for work at government and municipal bodies across all levels. What global trends in legal education are in evidence today? In today’s world, how relevant is it to have specializations devoted to different areas, such as state law, civil law, or criminal law? Would it be prudent to move towards narrower specializations, such as public body lawyers, corporate lawyers, criminal lawyers, civil institution lawyers, procedural lawyers, and law-enforcement lawyers? If law-enforcement is excluded as a key part of a lawyer’s professional activities from the federal education standard covering jurisprudence, might there be any negative consequences?

Moderator

Nikolay Kropachev
Rector, St. Petersburg State University

Panellists

Olga Alexandrova
Rector, The All-Russian State University of Justice
Alexander Bastrykin
Chairman, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Sergey Belov
Dean of the Faculty of Law, St. Petersburg State University
Viktor Blazheyev
Rector, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Alexander Golichenkov
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Evgeny Zabarchuk
First Deputy Minister of Justice 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
Sergey Stepashin
Chairman, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Territorial Development Fund

Front row participants

Oleg Vavilov
Director of the Department of Civil Service and Personnel, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
Yuri Zhdanov
President of the Russian Section, International Police Association
Elena Zakharkina
Deputy Director, Federal Bailiff Service
Ekaterina Ilgova
Rector, Saratov State Law Academy
Mikhail Krotov
Judge, The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Aleksandr Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences

Broadcast

Nikolay Kropachev
Rector, St. Petersburg State University
Olga Alexandrova
Rector, The All-Russian State University of Justice
Alexander Bastrykin
Chairman, Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation
Sergey Belov
Dean of the Faculty of Law, St. Petersburg State University
Viktor Blazheyev
Rector, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Alexander Golichenkov
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Evgeny Zabarchuk
First Deputy Minister of Justice 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
Sergey Stepashin
Chairman, Association of Lawyers of Russia; Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Territorial Development Fund
Oleg Vavilov
Director of the Department of Civil Service and Personnel, Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
Yuri Zhdanov
President of the Russian Section, International Police Association
Elena Zakharkina
Deputy Director, Federal Bailiff Service
Ekaterina Ilgova
Rector, Saratov State Law Academy
Mikhail Krotov
Judge, The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation
Aleksandr Savenkov
Director, Institute of State and Law, 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.
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