Online-conference in memory of Professor Igor Lukashuk ‘Politics of Sanctions in International Relations: Between Rule of Law and Coercion’

The leading Russian and foreign international lawyers will convene an online-conference ‘Politics of Sanctions in International Relations: Between Rule of Law and Coercion’to commemorate an outstanding Soviet and Russian legal scholar I.I. Lukashuk, who could have celebrated his 95^th anniversary this year.

The main topic is set to be the law of international responsibility – one of the branches of International law, profoundly contemplated by Prof. Lukashuk. The participants will discuss various sanction regimes (imposed by both international organizations and states) and concentrate their attention on the problems of the interrelation between International and domestic law, as well as between law and politics, to assess, when sanctions can be qualified as lawful.

The conference will be held in Russian and English with simultaneous translation.

Youtube: https://youtu.be/k2A1ndnufbs

Registration form is available at: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfQ5qfgTA-GPesGsWTE-8o7xNXVS6NXfmRJYqyt0QX-nrOthA/viewform  

 

Programme:

9:30 – 11:30 Moscow / 7:30 – 9:30 CET Igor Ivanovich Lukashuk – An Outstanding Jurist, Scholar And Teacher

Moderator – V. Rusinova, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the HSE Law Faculty’s School of International Law

• V. Vinogradov, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Dean of the HSE Faculty of Law
• D. Boklan, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the Laboratory for the Study of Public Interest Protection under Economic Sanctions, HSE School of International Law
• A. Kapustin, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Academic supervisor, Chair of the International Law Section at the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, the President of the Russian Association of International Law
• R. Muellerson, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Member and a former President of the l’Institut de Droit International (IDI), Professor Emeritus, Tallinn University
• R. Kolodkin, Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Professor, HSE School of International Law
• G. Shinkaretskaya, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Sector of International Law, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
• S. Marochkin, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head, Centre for International and Comparative Legal Studies, University of Tyumen
• A. Abdullin, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the Chair of International and European Law, Kazan Federal University

Discussion

12:00-13:00 Moscow / 10:00 – 11:00 CET Keynote Presentation

Moderator – I. Lifshits, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Chair of International Law, Russian Foreign Trade Academy

• L. van den Herik, Professor of Public International Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University. "Politics of Sanctions and International Law"

      Discussion

13:30-15:00 Moscow / 11:30 – 13:00 CET Sanctions As A Response To Cyberoperations

Moderator – G. Bogush, Candidate of Legal Sciences (Ph.D.), Associate Professor, HSE School of International Law

• F. Delerue, Senior Researcher in Cybersecurity Governance, Leiden University, Team Expert on International Law, EU Cyber Direct. "Self-Help against State-Sponsored Cyberoperations"
• V. Rusinova, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the HSE Law Faculty’s School of International Law, and E. Martynova, Lecturer, HSE Law Faculty’s School of International Law. "Fighting Cyber-Attacks with Sanctions: New Threats, Old Responses"
• A. Kozik, Candidate of Legal Sciences (Ph.D.), Associate Professor, Regional Сounsel on Legal Matters, International Committee of the Red Cross. "States’ Response to Cyberoperations: Topical Issues"

Discussion

15:05-16:45 Moscow / 13:05 – 14:45 CET Sanctions Vs. Responsibility: From Theory To Practiceis /This panel is organized within the research seminar of the Laboratory for the Study of Public Interest Protection under Economic Sanctions/

Moderator – O. Starshinova, Candidate of legal sciences (Ph.D.), Deputy Head of the Section on the Legal Support of Trade Negotiations, Department of Trade Negotiations, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Associate Professor, HSE School of International Law 

• G. Bogush, Candidate of legal sciences (Ph.D.), Associate Professor, HSE School of International Law. "Ideas of Igor Ivanovich Lukashuk on Criminalization of International Responsibility of States: the Relationship between State Responsibility and Individual Criminal Responsibility 20 Years Later"
• V. Starzhenetsky, Candidate of legal sciences (Ph.D.), Associate Professor, HSE School of International Law, Academic Supervisor of the Master’s Programm ‘Law of International Trade and Dispute Resolution’. "Sinergy, Competition and Interaction of Sanctions and International Responsibility: Present and Future"
• E. Ivanov, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, HSE Law Faculty’s School of International Law, Programme Academic Supervisor of the Master’s Programm ‘Compliance and Legal Risk Prevention’. "Applying Sanctions to Fight Corruption and Terrorism. Quo Vadis?"
• M. Zinzani, Сo-Head of the Trade Compliance Team at Studio Legale Padovan, Milan; M. de Andrade, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy). "The Impact of International Economic Sanctions on Business Transactions: a Practitioner’s Perspective"

Discussion

17:00-18:30 Moscow / 15:00 – 16:30 CET Responsibility And Coercion In International Trade. Book Launch ‘Rethinking, Repackaging And Rescuing World Trade Law In The Post-Pandemic Era’ /This panel is organized within the research seminar of the Laboratory for the Study of Public Interest Protection under Economic Sanctions/

Moderator – D. Boklan, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the Laboratory for the Study of Public Interest Protection under Economic Sanctions, HSE School of International Law

• M. Medvedkov, Professor, Head of the Department of Trade Policy, HSE Institute of Trade Policy. "What Should We Expect from the WTO?"
• A. Bahri, Assistant Professor at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and Co-Chair Professor for the WTO Chair Programm, Mexico. "Gender Mainstreaming in Free Trade Agreements: What Have We Achieved, and What More Is Needed for Inclusive Post-Pandemic Recovery?"
• M. de Andrade, Dr., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy). "Precedent in the MPIA: What Role for Consistency and Predictability?"

Discussion

18:30 Moscow / 16:30 CET Closing Ceremony

• D. Boklan, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the Laboratory for the Study of Public Interest Protection under Economic Sanctions, HSE School of International Law
• E. Ivanov, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, HSE Law Faculty’s School of International Law, Programme Academic Supervisor of the Master’s Programm ‘Compliance and Legal Risk Prevention’
• V. Rusinova, Doctor of Legal Sciences, Professor, Head of the HSE Law Faculty’s School of International Law