Modern private law in Russia and the European Union: integration is essential

The International Scientific Conference “Modern private law in Russia and the European Union” was held in Moscow on September 27th. The event was organized by the Institute of State and Law of the RAS, by the Russian-German Law Institute and Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel with support from the Law Firm "YUST".

Academician Andrey Lisitsyn-Svetlanov, Senior Partner of the Firm, Director of the Institute of State and Law of the RAS, opened the Conference.

In his opening speech, the Academician pointed out the special attention of the Russian and foreign experts to the impending modernization of the Russian civil legislation. A.Lisitsyn-Svetlanov said: “But the thing is that matters related to the adoption of the Code and its subsequent functioning nowadays cannot be isolated. Regulation of private law relations in our country, not only in some special cases with a foreign component, but in general, is a certain indicator of the country’s attractiveness for investors, for example”.

He continued: “Modern processes require certain integration of ideas and, possibly, of legal institutions themselves as well. In this regard, the holding of the Conference comprehends the conjunction of the Russian private law problems with the tendencies, which currently exist in the European Union”.

Russian specialists as well as foreign guests took part in the event: Professor, Doctor Reiner Wedde (Wiesbaden Business School, Rhein-Main Universitat, Rhein-Main, Germany), Professor, Doctor Burkhard Breig of the Freier Universitat Berlin, and others.

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vasiliy Nechaev also spoke at the Conference. He stressed the importance of improving private law in order to increase the competitiveness of our economy and pointed out that the new institutions “will be compensated by the strengthening the good-faith principle”.

See here the interview of Arthur Rokhlin, Partner of the Firm, to the Russian Agency of Legal and Judicial Information - RAPSI “Amendments to the Civil Code: conscience is an economic category”.

Afterwards, the members of the Conference discussed the issues of contractual liability and the good-faith principle, the principle of autonomy of the will of the parties to contractual relations in the international private law, development of regulation of trans-border sale and purchase agreements etc.

More information on one of the discussions is available in the blog of O.Pleshanova, entry of 27.10.2012 «Before-the-contract liability - contractual or tortious?»