Anatoly Torkunov at Swiss Academy of International Law Supervisory and Academic Councils Meeting

Anatoly Torkunov at Swiss Academy of International Law Supervisory and Academic Councils Meeting

4 June 2020

June 4th, a joint meeting of the Supervisory and Academic Councils of the Swiss Academy of International Law, created by the Association of Lawyers of Russia in conjunction with leading Russian universities, unfolded online. Aleksey Klishin, a member of the Association of Lawyers of Russia’s Presidium, Rector of the Swiss Academy of International Law moderated the event.

Among those attending the meeting were the Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, Co-chair of the Association of Lawyers of Russia Viktor Blazheev, the Co-chair of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Swiss Academy of International Law Sergey Stepashin, the Executive Secretary of the Presidium of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Swiss Academy of International Law Igor Manylov, a Member of the Presidium of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, Director of the Institute of Legislative and Comparative Law, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Supervisor of the Swiss Academy of International Law Taliya Khabrieva, the Rector of MGIMO, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Swiss Academy of International Law Anatoly Torkunov, the Executive Director, Head of the Office of the Association of Lawyers of Russia  Stanislav Alexandrov, the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Association of Lawyers of Russia, the First Vice-President of Gazprombank Natalya Tretyak, the Director of IPACS Igor Bartsits, the Dean of the School of International Law of MGIMO Gennady Tolstopyatenko, the First Vice-Rector of Moscow State Law University Elena Gracheva, the Vice-Rector of Moscow State Law University Maria Majorina, the Director of the Swiss Academy of International Law Julia Kochneva and the Director of the Center for International Legal Education Olga Benditskaya.

The meeting was also attended by representatives of foreign partners of the Association of Lawyers of Russia: the ex-Ambassador of Switzerland to the Russian Federation Pierre Helg, the Secretary General of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Brazilian Bar Association, member of the Council of the International Bar Association, the lawyer Bruno Barata, the President of the Bar Association of India Prashant Kumar.

The online conference was devoted to discussing work issues of the Swiss Academy of International Law, especially the implementation of the program "International Law and Comparative Law in 2020". Other topics on the agenda were the Academy’s MA programs and structuring educational programs in a network form by creating individual learning paths for students.