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From: Marianna G. Muravyeva [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce the conference Changing the Russian Law: Legality and Current Challenges will take place at the University of Helsinki on October 17-19, 2012. See the program below. Please, feel free to disseminate this message. Please, get registered to participate! - https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/36993/lomake.html University of Helsinki Faculty of Law KATTI Development of Russian Law Program International Conference Changing the Russian Law: Legality and Current Challenges 17 – 19 October 2012 WEDNESDAY, 17th (University Main Building, Auditorium XII, Unioninkatu 34, 3rd floor) 13.30 – 14.00 Registration and coffee for the pre-conference session 14.00 – 15.30 Pre-conference session 1 for post-graduate students Cold War and International Law: The Soviet Role in the Formulation International Legal Instruments Combating Trafficking in Women from the League of Nations to the United Nations Philippa Hetherington, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA The Problem of Choice between Personal Benefit and Professional Responsibility in Lawyers Work Anton Kazun, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russian legal practices of citizens’ involvement in political decision-making: legal study of their genesis under the influence of international law Mariya Riekkinen, Human Rights Institute, Åbo Akademi, Turku 15.30-16.00 Coffee 16.00-17.30 Pre-conference session 2 for post-graduate students Bureaucratic Alignment and Regional Court Performance André Schultz, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management Decisions’ application of the foreign courts in Russian Federation: problems and prospects Daria Tsygankova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Transitional Justice in Chechnya: NGO Political Advocacy and the Implementation of the European Court of Human Rights’ Chechen Judgments Freek van der Vet, Aleksanteri Institute for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Helsinki THURSDAY, 18TH (University Main Building, Small Lecture Hall, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor) 09.30 – 10.00 Registration and coffee 10.00 – 10.30 Opening of the conference 10.30 – 11.30 Keynote address Shaping a regime: the legal underpinnings of the second Putin presidency Jane Henderson, Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London 11.45 – 13.45 Session 1. Russian Constitutional Law (University Main Building, Runeberg Hall, Fabianinkatu 33, 2nd floor) The development of sub-national constitutional law in Russia and its application to Muslim minority rights Prof. Charles Szymanski and Prof. Egdunas Racius, Vytautas Magnus University, Faculty of law, Kaunas On Emergence and Contingency of a New Ideological State: a Constitutional Model of “Kelsenian Federation” in Russia Prof. Sergey Korolev, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences Formal and Material Constitution in Russia Prof. Ivan Marino, University of Naples L'Orientale Studying Legal Consciousness in Russia: Myths, Methods, and Lesson Dr. Tatiana Borisova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg 13.45 – 14.45 Lunch break 14.45 – 16.45 Session 2. Practices of the Legal Theory: Realism and Argumentation Progressive Legal Argumentation: The Last Frontier? Prof. William B. Simons, Centre for EU-Russian Studies (CEURUS), Institute of Constitutional and International Law, University of Tartu Formal Constraints in Legal Argumentation in Russia: the Case of the Russian Penal Procedure Dr. Ekaterina Samokhina, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Russian Legal Realism Dr. Evgeny Tonkov, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service, Moscow Man overboard! Or Pyrrhic victory of pandectists over social realists in the light of the upcoming changes of the Russian civil law Prof. Sergey Stepanov, Institute of Private Law, Ekaterinburg 16.45-17.00 Coffee 17.00-18.45 Session 3. Economics, Energy and the Challenges of Legal Regulation Economical analysis of law as language for communication between Russia and the Western countries Dr. Mikhail Antonov, National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg Russia's Bilateral Investment Treaties – A Good Source of Protection for Russian Investors? Christina Cathey Schuetz, Senior Associate, Clifford Chance CIS Limited, Moscow Legal regulations of Labor relations: current tendencies Dr. Dmitry Harakka-Zaitsev, Lawyer, GESTAMP AUTOMOCION, GESTAMP SEVERSTAL VSEVOLOZHSK, LLC, St. Petersburg FRIDAY, 19th (Juhlahuoneistot, Unioninkatu 33, 3rd floor) 09.30 – 11.00 Keynote Address Too Much of a Good Thing? Rethinking Access to Justice in Contemporary Russia Prof. Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin-Madison 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee 11.30 – 13.30 Session 4. The Application of Russian Justice: Bias and Bureaucracy The Civilizing Force of Hypocrisy: Transnational Integration Regimes, Legal Reform, and the Problem of Non-Enforcement in Russia Dr. Gordon B. Smith, University of South Carolina Social Construction of Criminal Cases in Russia: Structure of Bias, Structure of Privilege Dr. Ella Paneyakh, Institute for the Rule of Law, European University, St. Petersburg The Structure of Convictional Bias in the Russian Criminal Justice Dr. Kirill Titaev, Institute for the Application of Law, European University, St. Petersburg Between Law and Morality: New Legal Conservatism and Convictional Bias in Russian Criminal and Administrative Justice Dr. Marianna Muravyeva, KATTI, University of Helsinki 13.30-14.30 Lunch 14.40-16.15 Session 5. Criminal Justice in Russia: Current Challenges Implementing ECHR decisions on Tax law in Russia Dr. Anton Burkov, Faculty of Law, University of Humanities, Ekaterinburg Bringing Cases, If Not Rights, Home: Review of Russian Criminal Cases Following the Judgments of the European Court Dr. Kirill Koroteev, European Humanities University. Vilnius Cross-border crime investigation with Russian authorities. Legal and administrative challenges Dr. Anna-Liisa Heusala. Aleksanteri institute, University of Helsinki, and Dr. Jarmo Koistinen, Detective superintendent, National Bureau of Investigation, Helsinki 16.15-16.45 Closing session Dr. Marianna Muravyeva, Associate Professor of Law, Senior Researcher, KATTI, Faculty of Law P.O.Box 4 00014 University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland tel. (office no. 345): +358(0)919123205 tel. (mob.): +358 449302127 fax: +358 (0)9 191 24509 e-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>