I. Metshin: “Kazan has been and will be developing as the largest center of legal education”

(KZN.RU, June 8, Alsu Safina). Today the first assembly of the legal community of Tatarstan Legal Expert Awards was opened in Kazan. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, welcomed the participants in the GTRK “Korston”. He noted that Kazan historically has been and continues to develop as the largest Russian center of legal education and science.

The head of the city, who is the chairman of the board of trustees of the law faculty of the KFU, noted that next year this faculty turns 215 years old. “Over the past two centuries, thousands have successfully graduated from alma mater, becoming specialists in the field of jurisprudence”, said the Mayor. In 2015, the Kazan University gathered more than a thousand of its graduates and lawyers from all over the country for the first time. “It is gratifying that the holding of large international legal forums and conferences in Kazan with the participation of specialists from all over the world has become a good tradition”, said Ilsur Metshin. Last September, an international forum Kazan Legal was held on the initiative of Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of the RT. It made Kazan a few days' center of legal theory and practice. “I am sure that today's event will be interesting and useful for all participants, and staying in Kazan is unforgettable”, the Mayor wished the assembly participants.

The participants of the assembly were lawyers, legal consultants, corporate lawyers and business representatives, judges, representatives of professional organizations, associations, foundations, educational institutions, notaries, appraisers, representatives of Tatarstan authorities. They plan to discuss issues and problems that are relevant in the modern world.

The themes to be raised at the assembly, as well as the composition of its participants, make it possible to be sure that today's event will be most effective for the gathered, said Ildar Khalikov, the chairman of the Tatarstan regional branch of the All-Russian Public Organization “Association of Lawyers of Russia”. “Selected subjects are not easy. There are new questions from the field of digital law. This is already a matter not of the future, but of the present, and requires serious discussion and search for a solution”, said I. Khalikov.

“Today everyone talks about the digital economy, about new approaches. But this is not only an economy, it is a great field for new relations in the humanities. Today we are already talking about digital law”, said Dmitry Tayursky, the vice-rector for educational activities of the KFU. “And it is the field of activity not only for representatives of legal science and practice, it requires a collective interdisciplinary work”. According to the scientist, the time is not far off when many expert decisions will be applied on the basis of artificial intelligence. “But in the near future, I do not see that the human factor will go to the background. People will always be in the first place”, said the expert.

Not only working sessions on the issues of legal education, digital economy, judicial and arbitration practice, business and legal services are planned within the assembly. There are also the presentation of the Legal Expert Awards, a professional award for the republic's lawyers. In the evening, winners will be named in 12 nominations.

Vasily Likhachev, a member of the Central Election Commission, Doctor of Law, Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law, Anton Pronin, the director of the Center for Innovative Solutions BPM, Legal Tech of the Information Technologies Cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation, Tatiana Alexandrova, the deputy general director of Pravo.ru, the developer of the system of “Electronic Justice”.