VIII International Forum of Lawyers and Economists
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The legal forum “Modern Problems of Law and Economics of Europe and Asia” was organized for the first time in 2018. For the fifth time Forum will be the main legal event bringing together experts in the field of law and economics. Based on the results of the forum, methodological and practical recommendations and proposals for improving the world legislation will be prepared on the main areas of the panel discussions.
Important information:
- The Theme of the Forum: "The role of the state in the legal and economic regulation of technological policy in the new context of international cooperation between BRICS and EAEU countries"
- Dates: September 22-23, 2025
- Place: Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
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Important dates:
- Submissions of articles for publication - by 10 October 2025 (the Forum Organising Committee reserves the right to reject a publication if it does not comply with the scientific level or topics of the Forum).
- Registration of attendees - by 17 September 2025.
- Publication of the programme on the Forum website - on 19 September 2025.
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- Modern aspects of international law and economics
- Modern aspects of international humanitarian law
- Modern aspects and prospects for the development of the digital economy
- Modern aspects of competition law
- Modern aspects of the convergence of law and economics
- Modern aspects of law and business
- Modern aspect of energy law
Photo by Andrey Khamunkin. Cannes 2019
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Forum Programme
VIII International Forum of Lawyers and Economists "Modern Problems of Law and Economics in Europe and Asia": "The role of the state in the legal and economic regulation of technological policy in the new context of international cooperation between BRICS and EAEU countries"
September 22, Monday
September 23, Tuesday
OUR SPEAKERS
Mario Antinucci
Associate Professor at the SAPIENZA University, Head of International Relations at Order of the Lawyers of Rome & VP of SIRIUS GLOBAL
Giovanni Tartaglia Polcini
Magistrate, Legal Advisor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation MAECI (Italy).
Ronan Raffray
Professor, University of Bordeaux, Faculty of Law and Political Science
Raffaele Lener
Professor of Commercial Law and Financial Markets Law in the Department of Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Doctor of Law (Italy)
Namita Singh Malik
Dean and Professor, School of Law, Galgotias University, PhD in Law
Vladimir Belykh
Head of the Business Law Department of the Ural State Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
Maya I. Evdokimova
Vice-Rector for Innovative Development and Science, Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property, Ph.D.
Dariusz Gibasiewicz
Ph.D., lawyer; firm, "GIBASIEWICZ" firm, (Warsaw, Poland)
Alexander Sitnik
Associate Professor of the Financial Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), PhD in Law
Emidio Della Gala
Technical Expert in Anti-Counterfeiting at SIRIUS GLOBAL
Grigory P. Ivliev
Head of the Federal Service for Intellectual Property (Rospatent), Honoured Lawyer of the Russian Federation, PhD in Law.
Elia Antonietta Raffaela
Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, PhD in Law (Spain)
Prof. Avv. Gianfranco Tamburelli
Senior Legal Expert Dept. for Planning and Coordination of Economic Policies (DIPE) Presidency of Ministers’ Council National Research Council (CNR) Institute of International Law Studies ISGI (Rome, Italy)
Diana Treščáková
JUDr. PhD., Pavol Jozef Šafárik, University in Košice, Slovakia, Faculty of law
Tatyana V. Volkova
Associate Professor of the Chair of Land and Environmental Law of the “Saratov State Law Academy”, PhD, Federal Judge of the Twelfth Arbitration Court of Appeal (Russia, Saratov)
Lonardo Rabita
CTU of the Rome Court and founder of Leonardo Intelligence Security and Professionals
Amarjit Singh Chandhiok
Former Additional Solicitor General of India and former Principal Counsel, European Union Commission. London Court of International Arbitration, honorary member of the International Alliance of lawyers and economists (France, Lyon)
Sergey Puzyrevsky
Deputy head of the federal antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia, head of the Department of Competition Law of the Kutafin Moscow state law University (MSAL)
Hugo Flavier
Adjunct Professor, University of Bordeaux, Faculty of Law and Political Science (France)
Alain Duflot
World-renowned Expert and lawyer, founder of the firm of Duflot & Garegin Aschotovich Tosunyan Chairman of the Association of Russian Banks of the Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, ProfessorPartners (Lyon, France), professor at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
Alexei Sushkevich
Director of the Department for Antitrust Regulation of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Honored Economist of the Russian Federation, PhD in Economics.
Stephan U. Breu
Honorary Professor, Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), Secretary General of the Swiss Centre for international humanitarian law (Zurich, Switzerland)
Jotham Scerri-Diacono
Managing partner, of Ganado Advocates, an international law firm, Malta
Marco Ricceri
Secretary General, the European Institute of Political, Economic and Social Studies (EURISPES) (Italy).
Andrea Tucci
Professor of Banking and Financial Services Law at the University of Foggia
Marcello D'Aponte
Professor of Labor Law at University of Naples Federico II, Labor Law Lawyer in Naples, Rome and Milan, Doctor of Law (Italy)
Alexey Maslov
Director of the Institute of the Far East of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor (Russia).
Mario Antinucci
Associate Professor at the SAPIENZA University, Head of International Relations at Order of the Lawyers of Rome & VP of SIRIUS GLOBAL
Dr. Christopher Samuel Hutchinson
Ph.D., Professor, Program Director for collaboration at the Higher School of Economics (Russia) and University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Topic about: “The Single Digital European market: a source of inspiration for the establishment of the Eurasian Common Digital Space?”
Tatyana Astrelina
Head of the Center for Biomedical and Additive Technologies, Head of the Department of Regenerative Medicine, Hematology, Molecular Cytogenetics with the course of Pediatrics of the Russian State Research Center − Burnasyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency of Russia, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine
Oleg G. Karpovich
Director of the Institute of Current International Problems of the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor.
Damir Shapsugov
Director of the Center for Legal Research of South-Russian Institute of Management of RANEPA, Head of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of South-Russian Institute of Management of RANEPA, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Law, Professor
Elisabetta Silvestri
Associate Professor, Department of Law, University of Pavia (Italy)
Oleg A. Yastrebov
Doctor of Law and Economics, Professor, Rector of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR).
Aldo Spallone
Science Attache of the Italian Embassy in Russia
Fabrice Rosa
Dr. iur., professor, Associate Professor of private law at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne, director of CEJESCO (Centre for Legal Studies on the effectiveness of continental systems)
Olga Serova
Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the Pskov State University, Doctor of Law, Professor
Lana Arzumanova
Professor of the Financial Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Doctor of Law
Olga V. Kozhevina
Doctor of economics, professor, Institute of Economics and Crisis Management, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation(Moscow, Russia), member of the International Alliance of lawyers and economists (France, Lyon)
Kuznetsov A. Vladimirovich
Director of INION of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Professor at MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.
Nikolay Stoyko
St. Petersburg State University, Professor, Doctor of Law
Dalbir Singh
Co-Chairman, Eurasian People’s Assembly, Member of the Supreme Advisory Council of Eurasian People’s Assembly, Senior Advisors of Forum of Federations (Canada), Chairman of One Globe Forum, Head of Deptt. Indian National Congress, President of Foundation of Policy and Governance (India)
William Brydie-Watson
Lawyer, Legal Officer at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) (Rome, Italy)
Hind Majdoubi
Professor, Dr, College of Law, Ibn Tofail University of Kenitra, Specialist in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development Morocco
Menno Aden
Dr. iur., President ret. of Lutheran. Church, train professor with the University of Applied Sciences ( Fachhochschule) in Essen; former lecturer in international law at the University of Dortmund. (Essen, Germany)
Tepkina Anna
Lawyer, Head of Legal and Compliance in De Lage Landen Leasing (Moscow, Russia), member of the International Alliance of lawyers and economists (France, Lyon),
Gabriella Marcelja
President at SIRIUS GLOBAL — Academic Diplomacy 4.0, Director at Startup Grind & Chief Representative of the Cleantech Cluster in Italy and Croatia
Kamya Ritu Verma
Partner, Vidhiśāstras-Advocates & Solicitors (India)
Estelle Fohrer-Dedeurwaerder
Associate Professor, Director of the Institute for European, International and Comparative Law Studies, Co-Director of the European School of Law, University of Toulouse 1 Capitole (France)
Alexander Zhuravlev
Managing partner of Effective Business Resources LLC, Chairman of the committee on legal support of the digital economy Mo AYUR, co-founder of Blockchain lawyers.
Lyudmila Efimova
Head of the Banking Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Doctor of Law, Professor
Gabriella Marcelja
President at SIRIUS GLOBAL — Academic Diplomacy 4.0, Director at Startup Grind & Chief Representative of the Cleantech Cluster in Italy and Croatia
Maxim Tafintsev
Chairman of the Russian-Asian Legal Association (RALA)
Isabel Novo Castro
Lawyer of the Galician Local Government (Xunta of Galicia) - Legal Adviser at the Department of Culture, Education, and Universities - Expert on Law and Cultural Heritage
Lyudmila Berg
Professor of the Theory of State and Law Department, Head of the Research Laboratory for the Legal Support of the Safe Use of Genetic and Genomic Information of Ural State Law University, Doctor of Law
Maria A. Egorova
Dr. iur., professor, Head of international cooperation Department of the Kutafin Moscow state law University (MSAL), professor of the Department of Competition Law (MSAL), member of the International committee of the Digital economy, member of the committee on security of business activities of the chamber of Commerce and industry of Russia, professor emeritus at the University of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (Miami, USA), professor emeritus of the University Logos (Miami, USA)
Elisabetta Brunelli
Lawyer in Bologna — Italy
Ashish Deep Verma
Founder/Associate Director of Vidhiśāstras — Advocates & Solicitors (India)
Carminuccio Verrastro
CEO of Verrastro Roads Group & General Constructions srl
Liu Zhiqiang
Doctor of Law, Professor, Dean of the School of Economics, Shanghai University of Political Science and Law (China)
Paolo Novelli
CEO of Radio Novelli
Salvatore Mezanotte
Professor of Law and Expert Advocate, University of Gabriele d'Annunzio Chieti and Pescara (Italy).
Roberto Fernandez-Fernandez
Professor, Department of Labor Law and Social Security, Faculty of Private and Business Law, University of Leon, Doctor of Law, (Spain)
Stevic Velibor Petar
Vice-President for International Relations of the Serbian Royal Academy of Innovative Sciences, Honorary Professor of Derzhavin Tambov State University, Doctor of Military Sciences (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia)
Natalia Zhavoronkova
Head of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Doctor of Law
Marco Montanarini
Vice-President of the Russian-Asian Legal Association, lawyer Italy
Dr. Salvatore Mancuso
PhD in Comparative Law, University of Trieste, Vice-President (Events), member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL-AIDC), member of the African Society of International and Comparative Law, the Italian Association of Comparative Law (SIRD), founder of the Macao Association of Comparative Law. Topic about: “The Chinese Legal Diplomacy Program and its Geo-political Implications”.
Thierry Braillard
Lawyer and former French State Secretary in charge of Sports and former MP
Dr. Kishore Singh
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education (India) (2010-2016), Ph.D. in international law (1977) from the University of Paris 1 (Sorbonne). Topic about: “Economic and educational issues and the legal framework for financing education”.
Vladimir N. Sinyukov
Vice-Rector for Scientific Work of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL), Doctor of Law, Professor, honored work- er of science of Russia, honorary member of the International Alliance of lawyers and economists (France, Lyon).
Holger Zscheyge
President of the European Legal Technology Association (ELTA).
Paolo Giordani
President of the INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC INSTITUTE (Italy)
Clara Coudert
PhD at the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, associate researcher at the University of East London, member of the consortium Data Center Eureca Project, funded by the European Commission
Béatrice Espesson-Vergeat
Lawyer, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law of the University of Jean Monnet Saint Etienne researcher at CERCRID, Doctor of Private Law (France)
Salvatore Mancuso
Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, African Society of International and Comparative Law, Italian Association for Comparative Law, Doctor of Comparative Law, University of Trieste (Italy)
Victor Vaypan
Dr. iur., professor, Vice-Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Honorary Lawyer of Moscow
Garegin Aschotovich Tosunyan
Chairman of the Association of Russian Banks of the Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Professor
Daniela Fisichella
Lecturer in International and EU Law, Department of Political Science, University of Catania, (Italy)
Jean-Louis Navarro
Vice-Dean in Charge of International Relations, Head of the Dual Degree Master's Program in Comparative Business Law and in Business Law in collaboration with the University of Montreal (Canada), Head of the “International Lawyer” Program (DUJI), in charge of EM Lyon Business School, University Lumière Lyon 2 (France)
The partners
The forum cooperates with leading universities and commercial companies in Europe and Asia
