Dmitry Maleshin

Chief Editor’s Note on a Historical Sketch of Russian Civil Procedure

The 1990s in Russia were marked by major political and economic reforms. Those significant transformations inevitably changed relations within society, and the legal regulations that were supposed to control them demanded a considerable change as well.

Chief Editor’s Note on Arbitration Reform in Russia

Russia is a party to the New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. The USSR was one of the original Member States to sign the Convention in 1958. There is a distinction between international and domestic arbitration. Arbitration in Russia was regulated by the Federal Law on Arbitral Tribunals in the Russian Federation (2003) (domestic arbitration) and the Federal Law on International Commercial Arbitration (1993) (international arbitration). This law was drafted on the basis of the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration.

The First Siberian Legal Forum ‘Specialization of Courts and Judges’

the First siberian Legal Forum was held in tyumen (russia) from october 14–16, 2014, and was devoted to the 150 anniversary of the russian Judicial reform of 1864. the conference was organized by tyumen state university, with the support of the tyumen oblast Court, the west siberian district Commercial Court and in association with the Russian Law Journal, which published some of the reports that were presented at the conference.

Chief Editor’s Note on the New Russian Code of Administrative Procedure

In 2015, a new Code of Administrative Procedure [hereinafter Code] was adopted in Russia. Such a code has never existed in Russian legal history.