1st International Legal Forum in Kazan
The forum鈥檚 original tagline, 袩褉邪胁芯 薪邪 锌褉邪胁芯, is a wordplay using the identical spelling of the word 鈥榣aw鈥� and the word 鈥榬ight鈥�, which makes it sound like 鈥楾he Right to Law鈥� in English.
The opening ceremony on 29 September was visited by Presidential Envoy to the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court of Russia Mikhail Barshchevsky, Chairman of the State Council (Parliament) of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin, Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Taliya Khabrieva, Rector of 每日大赛 Lenar Safin, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin, and others.
The Rector noted in his opening speech, 鈥淚t鈥檚 important to find new foundations for our internal and international rule of law. And we鈥檇 like to unite legal scholars, public authorities, and the legal community in proposing new ideas for pertinent problems. I鈥檓 convinced that this new forum at Kazan University will become a good tradition.鈥�
Greetings were also extended by Farid Mukhametshin, Ilsur Metshin, Chief Federal Inspector in Tatarstan Viktor Demidov, and Chairman of the Court of Arbitration of the Volga District Denis Plotnikov.
Taliya Khabrieva, Mikhail Barshchevsky, and Chair of the Department of Civil Process of the Ural State University of Law Vladimir Yarkov delivered speeches at the plenary session.
The forum has attracted 400 contributors and takes up 29 and 30 September. Among the discussed topics are legal education, arbitration, entrepreneurship, bankruptcy, international law, and others. One of the panels, Theory and Practice of Constitutionalism in Contemporary World, is dedicated to the upcoming 30th anniversaries of the Constitution of Tatarstan (November 2022) and the Constitution of Russia (December 2023).