Universal standards of human rights and their implementation: trends in constitutional and international justice

in 2024

Fourth international Human Rights Day conference

Moscow, December 12 and 13, 2024

Сonference Program

DECEMBER 12, Thursday

Opening remarks: Olga Borisovna Sidorovich, Director of the Center for Constitutional Studies, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Comparative Constitutional Review”
Session 1. Trends in International Public Law

Moderator: Olga Borisovna Sidorovich

International Justice: Judicial Interpretation as Political Power
Andrey Nikolaevich Medushevsky, Doctor of Philosophy, Full Professor, National Research University "Higher School of Economics"

Law in the Grip of Politics: International Courts at a Crossroads
Anatoly Ivanovich Kovler, Doctor of Law, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (retired)

Discussion
Session 2. International Criminal Justice

Moderator: Andrey Nikolaevich Medushevsky

Criminalization of international crimes: general and specific
Alexander Petrovich Evseyev, PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Russian State University of Justice

The Special Court for Kosovo – practice from the standpoint of international criminal law and procedure
Andrey Nikolaevich Antonov, Doctor of Law, UN mission in Somalia (online)

Discussion
Session 3. The impact of institutional reforms on human rights

Moderator: Irina Pavlovna Kenenova

Protection of local self-government rights by means of constitutional justice in Germany and Russia
Elena Vladimirovna Gritsenko, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Law Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University

Territorial structure and public authority after constitutional reform
Vadim Vladimirovich Korolkov, PhD in Law, Assistant of the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov

The principle of responsibility of public authorities in the context of digitalization
Anna Fedotovna Vasilyeva, PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University

Discussion
Session 4. BOOK PRESENTATION
“The Constitution of Russia after the 2020 reform: Legal and Political Commentary”
Moderator: Olga Borisovna Sidorovich

Presentation participants – authors of the monograph: Andrey Nikolaevich Medushevsky, Elena Vladimirovna Gritsenko, Irina Pavlovna Kenenova, Andrey Georgievich Roumyantsev, Vadim Vladimirovich Korolkov.

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DECEMBER 13, Friday

Заседание 5. Доступ к конституционному и международному правосудию

Session 5. Access to constitutional and international justice

Moderator: Elena Vladimirovna Gritsenko

Indirect access to constitutional justice as a means of protecting rights
Olga Nikolaevna Kryazhkova, PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Russian State University of Justice;
Irina Aleksandrovna Dudko, PhD in Law, Associate Professor at the Russian State University of Justice

Protection of the professional rights of lawyers and human rights defenders in the Constitutional Court of Russia, the ECHR and the UN Human Rights Committee
Olga Albertovna Schwartz, PhD in Law, Advisor to the Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation
Natalia Matskevich, practicing lawyer, lecturer at the Humanitarian University in Vilnius (Lithuania)

Fairness and equality in constitutional justice
Danil Andreevich Mamaev, editor of the journal "Comparative Constitutional Review", postgraduate student at the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov

Discussion
Session 6. Constitutional right to health protection

Moderator: Ilya Vitalyevich Vederin, Head of the Department of New Technologies of State and Municipal Management, Irkutsk State Medical University, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”

Bridges of Trust: The Role of Constitutional Courts in Protecting Patients with Severe Genetic Diseases
Maria Vladimirovna Posadkova, PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Medical Law, Sechenov University, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Law, Institute of Social Sciences, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

The Trolley Problem: Current Issues of Determining the Volume of the Right to Drug Provision
Konstantin Aleksandrovich Sharlovsky, Partner, Head of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals Practice, Pepeliaev Group

Discussion
Session 7. Constitutional rights in the new circumstances

Moderator: Olga Nikolaevna Kryazhkova

Constitutional rights in the “digital space”
Irina Pavlovna Kenenova, PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov

Historical interpretation of the Constitution and the problem of the death penalty in Russia
Sergey Anatolyevich Manzhosov, lawyer, teacher-researcher at the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University

Discussion
Session 8. On the eternal - freedom of speech

Moderator: Olga Albertovna Schwartz

Hate speech on the Internet: between freedom of speech and personal security
Anita Karlovna Soboleva, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Fake news and subtleties of the theory of freedom of speech
Alexander Sergeevich Kulnev, candidate for the degree of candidate of legal sciences, lawyer at Pepeliaev Group

Discussion

Closing of the conference:
Andrey Nikolaevich Medushevsky, Olga Borisovna Sidorovich
Speakers
  • Anatoly Kovler
    Doctor of Law, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (retired)
  • Andrey Medushevsky
    Doctor of Philosophy, Full Professor, National Research University "Higher School of Economics"
  • Alexander Evseyev
    PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Russian State University of Justice
  • Andrey Antonov
    Doctor of Law, UN mission in Somalia
  • Elena Gritsenko
    Doctor of Law, Professor of the Law Faculty of the St. Petersburg State University
  • Vadim Korolkov
    PhD in Law, Assistant of the Law Faculty of the Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov
  • Anna Vasilyeva
    PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg State University
  • Olga Kryazhkova
    PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Russian State University of Justice
  • Irina Dudko
    PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Russian State University of Justice
  • Olga Schwartz
    PhD in Law, Advisor to the Federal Chamber of Advocates of the Russian Federation
  • Danil Mamaev
    editor of the journal "Comparative Constitutional Review", postgraduate student at the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov
  • Maria Posadkova
    PhD in Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Medical Law, Sechenov University, Associate Professor of the Higher School of Law, Institute of Social Sciences, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
  • Konstantin Sharlovsky
    Partner, Head of Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals Practice, Pepeliaev Group
  • Irina Kenenova
    PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov
  • Anita Soboleva
    PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National Research University Higher School of Economics
  • Alexander Kulnev
    Candidate for the degree of candidate of legal sciences, lawyer at Pepeliaev Group