Wydział Prawa i Administracji Uniwersytet Warszawski

Saint Petersburg State University
is pleased to invite you to

XX Inernational Student Law Conference
iSLaCo’ 2020
«Law: New&Now»

3 - 4 April 2020

The conference is planned to have the following sections:

1. Complex branches of law phenomenon: shaken, not stirred.
   Moderators: Vasilyev I. A., Diveeva N. I.
2. Modern criminalization: how criminal law meets the challenges of fast-moving world.
   Moderator: Shatikhina N. S.
3. Five years of the Law of obligations Reform: expectations and results.
   Moderator: Pavlov A. A.
4. Legal Tech: the Present and the Future of Jurisprudence.
   Moderators: Arkhipov V. V., Gracheva A. V.
5. Administrative Offence Law reform: what to expect from the new Code.
   Moderator: Dmitrikova E. A.
6. Disposal actions in the civil procedure.
   Moderator: Volodarski D. B.
7. Comparative Law in the modern era
   Moderator: Belov S. A., Zezekalo A. Y.

Topics of master class of leading jurists and the cultural program will be published later in the official social network of the conference.
Winner’s abstracts (one winner per each section) will be published in Vox Juris Journal.
The working languages of the conference: Russian, English.

I. Description of sections

1. Complex branches of law phenomenon: shaken, not stirred.
   Sport law, medical law, environmental law, information law… They all are the examples of complex branches. The section is intended to discuss works on sports and medical law. However, it doesn’t imply any restrictions for participants to choose any other complex branch for their works. Examples of sports and medical law can be found in the Appendix II to this information latter.
2. Modern criminalization: how criminal law meets the challenges of fast-moving world.
   In conditions of constant technical progress and complication of social relations, criminal law has to react quickly to changing world. Drones, digital currency, the achievements of transplantology, bioethics and other signs of time – and rights violations related to them. Frequently before «the new» is evaluated in other branches of law, the socially dangerous acts it creates and ways and means of their commission should be covered by the criminally-legal qualification. How does world science behave facing the new? How will it behave tomorrow? How does the practice handle challenges of time? What trends and issues are on the way?
3. Five years of the Law of obligations Reform: expectations and results.
   The main goal of the section isn’t only to discuss institutes and solutions, which appeared as a result of the Law of obligation reform, but also to analyze its practical implementation today.
4. Legal Tech: the Present and the Future of Jurisprudence.
   Within this section is intended to discuss the following issues in the field of Legal Tech: LegalTech developments; GovTech; automation of legal activity, computational law; Legal Design in legal practice; Ethic and new technologies; Philosophy of technology and law; Legal regulation of artificial intelligence and big data; Digital skills for a lawyer: programming, working with open data, etc.
5. Administrative Offence Law reform: what to expect from the new Code.
   Within the section is intended to discuss planned changes of the legislation on Administrative Offences Law: categories of offences and measures of liability, distribution of liability of the company and the employee, the mitigation of coercive measures in case of voluntary execution of a sentence, guarantees for the provision of qualified legal assistance, the development of the adversarial system in cases of administrative offenses.  
6. Disposal actions in the civil procedure.
   Civil procedure law is a mobile branch of Russian legislation, which has recently undergone another large-scale reform. New institutions and mechanisms in the procedure naturally affect the scope of rights of its participants, and any changes should be understood systematically and theoretically. What are the trends in the formation of the rights of participants in the civil procedure? How do these new trends change the face of the branch? What difficulties and challenges does the Russian and world science of civil procedure face? 
7. Comparative Law in the modern era.
   Comparative Law is one of the fundamental elements of the development of domestic legislation. Within this section, participants can conduct a comparative legal analysis of current problems of Russian legislation with the possibility of implementing foreign experience. Participants are not limited to choose law branch and the country with which the comparative analysis will be conducted.

II. Important dates

Opening of registration: 23 October 2019.
The registration deadline for the speakers and the audience members: 27 January 2020.
Attention! The deadline for application WILL NOT be extended.
Official dates of the conference: 3 and 4 April 2020.

III. How to apply

1. Think of your preferred way of participating in the conference (spiker or audience member).
   Attention! For the participation personal attendance is strictly required.   
2. Fill out the respective registration form on the official website of the conference - http://islaco.spbu.ru (section «For foreign participants»):
   For speakers:
   https://regforms.spbu.ru/ru/?option=com_rsform&view=rsform&formId=957
   For audience members:
   https://regforms.spbu.ru/ru/?option=com_rsform&view=rsform&formId=959
   If you need an official invitation, please indicate it when filling out the form. Otherwise, the Organizing Committee may not be able to issue it on time.  
3. Once your application is submitted, you will receive an automatic notification, which you don’t need to respond. If you haven’t received a notification, please retry filling out the form once again. If no notification follows in the latter case, please, contact the Organizing Committee.

Conference abstracts can be co-authored. However, no more than two co-authors per one work is admitted.

IV. Competitive pre-selection

Abstracts are subject to compulsory competitive pre-selection according to the following criteria:

• Conformity to the scope of the conference and topic of the section;
• Originality;
• Academic ethics (in particular, absence of plagiarism).

Moderators of the relevant sections will review abstracts and make a decision in respect of each abstract.
The Organizing Committee reserves the right not to indicate the reasons for refusal to accept abstracts.  

V. Terms of participation

Participation in the conference is free of charge.
All expenses, including travel to St. Petersburg and back, accommodation and food are covered by participants themselves. 
Students and post-graduate students are also allowed to participate.

VI. Venue

22^nd line of Vasilievsky Island, house 7, Saint-Petersburg.

The route from the «Vasileostrovskaya» underground station:

• By tram: 6
• By bus/trolleybus: 1, 7, 10, 11, 128 (bus stop on Bolshoy Prospect)

VII. Requirements for abstract’s design

1. Not more than 20 000 characters long including spaces;
2. Font – Times New Roman;
3. Size – 14;
4. Interval – 1,5;
5. Margins – 20 mm (on all sides: top, bottom, left, right);
6. Indent 0,7 cm, alignment justified;
7. Page numbering – in the center;
8. Footnotes (size) – 10;
9. Keywords in English (5-7);
10. Example of a document title: «Section 5. Ivanov. I. I.».

If the abstract’s design doesn’t meet the specified requirements, the Organizing Committee reserves the right to refuse to accept work.

Contact information

E-mail: islaco@spbu.ru
Contact number: +7 (981) 859-33-98 Anait

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