Public Lecture by Dr. Sergey Zinkovskiy and Dr. Ekaterina Kiseleva (Law Institute of RUDN University)
Date & Time: September 12, 2024 (Thursday) 12:00-13:00
Venue: Room 725, 7/F, Cheng Yu Tung Tower, The University of Hong Kong
Language: English
(In-person only)
Session 1:
“Challenges to Constitutional and Cultural Identity: A Comparative View” by Dr. Sergey Zinkovskiy
Abstract：
Currently there is no unified “supracultural” understanding of constitutional and cultural identity, and no clear methodology for identifying “core” legal traditions. There is only a common goal that national legal cultures are guided by when forming their own doctrines of constitutional identity. In specific cultural and historical conditions, its elements and most significant features are those destruction of which means the loss or deformation of the mechanisms integrating society. These mechanisms may be about legal traditions or even prejudices, stereotypes of public consciousness that ensure social progress, as well as about those elements of legal environment that provoke legal inertia or are even anachronisms. The lecture is devoted both to the theoretical aspects of the challenges to constitutional and cultural identity and to the comparative overview of some constitutional responses to these challenges.
Speaker：
Sergey B. Zinkovskiy is Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of Law and State and Department of Comparative Law and Applied Jurisprudence, Director of the Law Institute of RUDN University named after Patrice Lumumba (Russian Federation). Since 2003, Sergey B. Zinkovskiy has been working at the RUDN University named after Patrice Lumumba at the Department of Theory of Law and State and at the Department of Comparative Law and Applied Jurisprudence of the Law Institute. Since 2020, he heads the RUDN Law Institute. In 2015-2017, Sergey B. Zinkovskiy was an arbitrator of the Arbitration Court at the Non-Profit Organization “Independent Bar Association”. Since 2001, he has the status of an barrister, and is currently a member of the Moscow Bar Association. Since June 2017, Sergey B. Zinkovskiy is a member of the Board of the Association of Legal Education of Russian Federation. Since 2019 – a member of the Scientific and Technical Council of RUDN University from 2019 to 2022. Research interests – cultural interaction in law, typology of law, legal mechanisms of counteraction against information manipulation, critical thinking in the law.
Session 2:
“Migration and International Law: New Trends, Old Obstacles” by Dr. Ekaterina Kiseleva
Abstract：
People’s movement across territories and borders is a part of human history generally. New trends, however, are specific to each epoch, and contemporary tendencies are to be touched upon in the lecture from the perspective of international law. Five points to talk about are terms and figures describing migration, features in normative and institutional approaches to international cooperation on migration, new topics debated, and old obstacles impeding international efforts. Shall we concede legal correctness to political correctness and/or trivial sensitivities? Who and how count people of the move and what is the price of inequalities in the ability to count, for cooperation on migration? Why don’t we still have a comprehensive treaty on migration and what do we have instead? Why International Organization for Migration is not a true centre of a concerted action on migration? Climate migration, civic activities of non-citizens and AI in governing migration are topics on the rise. Finally, the obstacles to success are to be revealed for each aspect, as well as meaning of everything said for China.
Speaker：
Ekaterina V. Kiseleva, candidate of legal sciences, Dr., has been developing and teaching academic disciplines in international law field since 2005, in Russian and English. She has acted as a guest lecturer at universities and organizations in China, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, at programs and events of UNHCR, the Russian Red Cross, the ICRC, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. Practical experience covers preparation of expert opinions, elaboration and facilitation of advanced trainings regarding international legal regulation of migration and refugee law for various audiences. Participated in the development and implementation of the legal module of a comprehensive exam for migrants in Russia, prepared analysis of the law and practice of Uzbekistan in the light of accession to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, assisted in improvement of the refugee legislation of Tajikistan.
Chair:
Yun Zhao, Henry Cheng Professor in International Law, is the Associate Dean (Mainland Affairs) at Faculty of Law of The University of Hong Kong.