St Petersburg International Legal Forum
St Petersburg University will play an active role in the XIII St Petersburg International Legal Forum, Russia’s major legal professional gathering. The forum will bring together leading experts, government and business representatives, and academics to discuss pressing issues in jurisprudence. The programme will feature presentations of new textbooks and academic publications by SPbU lawyers, alongside panel discussions and youth-oriented events.
Scholars from the University will participate in panel discussions addressing issues of law and religion, the traditional values and their integration into legal frameworks, the use of artificial intelligence, the use of stock indexes for determining market prices in legal proceedings, legal collaboration among the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation member states, digital tools for judicial systems, and other pressing legal issues.
The forum will feature the presentation of two textbooks: ‘Russian Criminal Law’ edited by SPbU Rector Nikolay Kropachev, SPbU Associate Professor Nadezhda Pryakhina, and Professor Vladislav Shchepelkov; and ‘Criminalistics’ edited by Professor Vladimir Burlakov and SPbU Rector Nikolay Kropachev. The event will also include official presentations of scientific journals ‘Pravovedenie’ and ‘Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law’.
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev publishes article in St Petersburg University’s scientific journal ’Pravovedenie’
St Petersburg University booth will showcase the institution’s key legal initiatives, such as: Monitoring Law Enforcement project; Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science; SPbU Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Oversight and Supervision Activities; Research Institute of the State Language; and the Legal Clinic.
On 21 May, there will be held the International Youth Legal Forum, where experts from St Petersburg University will discuss the legal foundations of machine learning, legal regulation in the field of computer games, training of social lawyers in legal clinics, international commercial arbitration, and arbitration reform in China.
The Youth Forum’s business programme will feature a congress of student councils’ representatives from law faculties of participating universities, alongside a student symposium on international law. The event will also host the final round of an international competition of oral and written works, held in memory of the distinguished advocate and SPbU alumnus Vladimir Spasovich.