Location of the event: Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region, Boris Yeltsin St., Building 10, Small Hall (6th floor)

Moderator:

• Danil Vladimirovich Vinnitsky, Head of the Department of Financial Law at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Director of the BRICS Law Institute, Doctor of Law, Professor.

Topics for discussion:

1. Approval of the work plan of the BRICS Law Institute Coordinating Council and presentation of the textbook "Tax Law of the BRICS States."
2. Harmonization of standards for higher legal education in the EAEU: presentation of the draft model standard.
3. Standards of proof in tax disputes: trends in judicial practice.
4. Problems of real estate taxation in cross-border situations.

Location of the event: Komsomolskaya St., Building 21, Academic Council Hall (2nd floor)

Moderator:

• Head of the I. F. Gerasimov Department of Forensic Science, Head of the Laboratory of Digital Technologies in Forensic Science, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor Dmitry Valerievich Voronkov

Questions for discussion:

1. The Need and Limits of Legal Regulation of Modern Technologies
2. Opportunities and Risks of Digitalization
3. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Digitalization Process
4. Transformation of Legal Competencies in the Modern Reality
5. Challenges of Integrating Modern Technologies into Legal Practice
6. etc.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, 2nd floor lobby

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom B

Moderators:

• Natalya Nikolaevna Zipunnikova - Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of History of State and Law at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Yekaterinburg.
• Elena Stanislavovna Sokolova - Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of History of State and Law at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Yekaterinburg.

Questions for discussion:

1. The instrumental role of memory politics in the development of social communications.
2. Social technologies in memorial politics.
3. Memory politics as an object of legislative regulation.
4. The memory factor as a key element of interdisciplinary scientific models in fundamental legal sciences.
5. Memory as an element of educational technologies in mastering the legal profession.
6. Memory and ideology as key vectors of state legal policy.
7. Scientific memory as a tool for research and educational technologies.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Crystal

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Emerald

Moderators:

• Andrey Vladimirovich Vinnitsky, Doctor of Law, Vice-Rector for Strategic Development and Research, Head of the Department of Land, Urban Planning, and Environmental Law at V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University
• Yuriy Vyacheslavovich Kozubenko, Doctor of Law, Head of the International Cooperation Department, Professor of the P.M. Davydov Department of Judicial Activity and Criminal Procedure at V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University

Questions for discussion:

1. "On the participation of scholars from partner universities in co-supervising/consulting/reviewing dissertation research"
2. "On the participation of Consortium scholars in co-supervising/consulting master's degree research"
3. On the selection of students for participation in the "Summer University 2026" project
4. Summary of the work of the International School of Civil Procedure as part of the Additional Professional Continuing Education Program "International and Comparative Civil Procedure in the Eurasian Space: Theory and Practice."
5. Summary of the work of the International School of Criminal Procedure as part of the Additional Professional Continuing Education Program "Criminal Procedure in Russia and the CIS Countries: Law-Theory-Practice."
6. Discussion of the results of the implementation of joint master's and bachelor's degree programs, planning for the launch of new projects
7. On the results of organizing joint research on the topic: "Internationalization (convergence of specialist qualifications) of legal education and science in the EAEU."
8. Miscellaneous.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Platinum

Moderators:

• Maxim Vladimirovich Goncharov - First Vice-Rector of USLU
• Representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
• Representatives of JSC Uralvagonzavod Concern
• Representatives of the Federal State Autonomous Institution "Sociocenter"

Tracks:
Educational Track:

1. Technological Leadership: Its Place in Higher Legal Education (universal educational tracks, profiles, programs, etc.).
2. Competencies and the Image of a Graduate as an Employee of a Modern Manufacturing Enterprise.
3. Industry-specific, group, and individual educational pathways for training technology leaders in industry and the economy.

HR Track:

1. University-enterprise interactions as a seamless transition of knowledge and competencies into the necessary technological solutions for enterprises: challenges, experiences, and best practices in supporting university initiatives.
2. Internships, practicums, and employer scholarship programs for students studying technological leadership programs.

Management Track:

1. University management architecture and models in the context of educational system transformation.
2. The impact of university development program projects on the structure and objectives of its departments and their configuration options.
4. International Track:
5. International Cooperation in Ensuring Technological Development: Developing Common Approaches to Managing Internationalization and Academic Exchange Processes at Universities.

Values ​​Track:

1. Education and the Sociocultural Environment of the University: Ideological and Value-Based Foundations of Educational Policy in the Context of Professional Education. Potential and Social Responsibility of Graduates and Employers.
2. Who Are the Modern Graduates and Employers?

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom A

Moderators:

• Sergey Vladimirovich Kodan, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Department of History of State and Law at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Professor of the Department of Legal Theory and Comparative Law at the Institute of Law at the Russian Humanitarian University.
• Sergey Mikhailovich Shakhrai, Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Director of the Institute of Law at the Russian State Humanitarian University.

Questions for discussion:

1. The place and role of academic master's programs in the current stage of higher education reform in Russia.
2. The place and role of academic master's programs in the training of research and teaching staff.
3. Academic master's programs in the legal education system.
4. Organizational foundations and forms of creation and operation of academic master's programs in jurisprudence.
5. Content and technologies for training research and teaching staff within the framework of academic master's programs.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Crystal

Moderator:

• Arkady Viktorovich Maifat - Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Civil Law at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Head of the Department of Property Law at the Ural Branch of the S.S. Alekseev Institute of the Human Rights and Personal Institutions, Partner at the Private Law Bar Association

Questions for discussion:

1. An overview of the current state of Russian tort law.
2. Competition between contractual and tort claims arising from contractual, lease, and other contractual relationships;
3. Liability of owners (possessors) for damage caused by their property.
4. Interdisciplinary aspects of tort law: private law torts and crimes – distinction criteria, substantive and procedural law.
5. Private law consequences of public law torts.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom A

Moderator:

• P. U. Kuznetsov - Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Information Law at the Ural State Law University named after V. F. Yakovlev

Questions for discussion:

1. Legal Aspects of Understanding, Creating, and Using Digital Rights
2. Digital Rights as a Legal Fiction
3. Digital Financial Systems and Assets
4. Digital Rights as an Information System
5. Rules for the Creation and Use of Digital Rights as Information Systems
6. Comprehensive Legislative Framework for the Formation and Use of Digital Rights

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Emerald

Moderator:

• Doctor of Law, Professor K.M. Smanaliev
• Doctor of Law, Professor I.G. Smirnova
• Doctor of Law, Associate Professor A.O. Mashovets
• Doctor of Law, Professor D.Zh. Suyunova

Questions for discussion:

1. Specific aspects of criminal proceedings in the economic sphere, prospects for the criminalization of sanctions in the EAEU, issues of the procedural status of individual (unnamed) participants in criminal proceedings in the context of GR competencies.
2. Investigation of medical crimes in the EAEU: issues of national and international jurisdiction, specific aspects of the execution of sentences in this category of cases: issues of conflicting sentences and the procedural significance of prejudice.
3. New features of sentence review under the criminal procedure legislation of the CIS countries.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom C

Moderators:

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Yarkov, Head of the Department of Civil Procedure at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Professor, Doctor of Law, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
• Yevgeniya Igorevna Chervets, Master of Laws (RShChP), LLM, Attorney, Managing Partner of the Moscow Office of the Regionservice Bar Association

Questions for discussion:
Section 1. AI and Arbitration

1. Where is the line drawn between the permissible use of AI as a tool and the impermissible delegation of arbitrator functions?
2. Should parties and arbitrators disclose the use of generative AI when preparing procedural documents?
3. Can the use of AI affect the validity of an arbitral award or serve as grounds for challenging it?
4. Can the use of AI affect the validity of an arbitral award or serve as grounds for challenging it?

Section 2. Digitalization of Arbitration

1. Should virtual hearings become the standard in international arbitration or remain the exception?
2. Does the online format affect the assessment of evidence and the credibility of witness testimony?
3. What procedural standards are necessary for remote hearings?
4. Can the technologization of arbitration expand access to justice?

Section 3. Technological Disputes in Arbitration

1. Is international arbitration prepared for disputes involving AI, digital assets, and critical technologies?
2. Is there a need for arbitrators to specialize in technology disputes?
3. Could the technological complexity of disputes lead to new models of expert evidence?

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom C
Time slots:

• 10:00 - 11:45;
• 12:00 - 13:45.

Moderator:

• Tarasov Nikolay Nikolaevich – Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Theory of State and Law of the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, winner of the S.S. Alekseev Prize "For Merits in Jurisprudence" (2024).

The main areas of discussion will be:

1. "Social" and "technological" in 21st-century practices.
2. Legal and technical regulation: theory and practice.
3. The role of legal science and education in the development of regulatory practices in modern society.

To develop the program and plan the work of the Alekseyev Readings, short abstracts of participants' presentations (1-2 pages) must be sent to lawcongress@usla.ru by May 15, 2026.

Groups of discussion participants and speakers will be determined based on the relevance of the abstracts submitted to the theme and scope of the Alekseyev Readings. Discussion participants will be able to express their views on the presentations in the form of questions, objections, alternative ideas, etc., and Alekseyev Readings participants will be able to pose questions to the speakers.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom A

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Silver

Moderator:

1. Sergeev Danil Nazipovich - Vice-Rector for Youth Policy at Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovleva

Discussion topics:

1. Ethnic law as a normative system: the limits of its relevance;
2. Possible areas of coexistence between traditional religious and ethnic norms and the law;
3. Traditional values ​​in the constitutional dimension;
4. The role of civil society institutions in harmonizing traditions and legislation;
5. Legal education in ethnic communities;
6. Integrating religion into the training of legal personnel in higher education;
7. Religious education and legal literacy;
8. The role of ethnocultural associations in the formation of Russian Federation legislation.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Silver

Moderator:

1. Damir Aleksandrovich Tyazhelnikov, Head of the Project Implementation and Youth Policy Department, Department of Educational Work and Youth Policy, V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University

Discussion topics:

1. Student participation in participatory budgeting;
2. Project areas for participatory budgeting;
3. Stages of project preparation for participatory budgeting;
4. Key challenges in preparing participatory budgeting projects;
5. Implementation of participatory projects;
6. Interaction between educational institutions and students in student participatory budgeting;
7. Project budgeting;
8. Student defense of participatory projects.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Topaz

Moderator:

1. Nikita Sergeevich Zakharov – member of the Student Council under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, head of the Student Initiatives Center at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University

Discussion topics:

1. Participation of student and youth self-government bodies in protecting youth rights and providing legal education;
2. Systemic violations of student rights: identification and response practices
3. Criteria for the effectiveness of youth rights protection;
4. Successful practices in protecting the rights and interests of young people and providing legal education;
5. Interaction between government agencies and educational institution administrations with young people in protecting their rights and interests;
6. Legal support in an intercultural and multinational youth environment;
7. Protection of the social rights of young people;
8. Mentoring institute in the areas of youth rights protection and legal education

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Topaz

Moderator:

1. Nikita Sergeevich Zakharov – member of the Student Council under the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, head of the Student Initiatives Center at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University

Discussion topics:

1. Improving the legal framework for the activities of student and youth representative bodies;
2. Implementation of an education quality assessment system;
3. Fundamental principles for the activities of student and youth self-government bodies;
4. Forms of interaction between government bodies, public structures, and youth;
5. Efficiency of student and youth self-government bodies;
6. Ensuring the effective participation of student and youth self-government bodies in management decisions at the level of educational institutions and regions;
7. Mentoring in the activities of student and youth representative bodies;
8. Interregional and inter-university cooperation between student and youth representative bodies.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Topaz

Moderator:

1. Nikolai Vitalyevich Novikov, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region to the President of the Russian Federation, Master of Private Law

Discussion topics:

1. Balance between innovation and copyright protection: speed and/or certainty
2. The growth of deepfake content and AI film festivals
3. Rethinking the classic "human-author" model
4. The challenges and potential of legislative regulation of AI in creative activities.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, 2nd floor lobby

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom A

Moderator:

• Head of the Department of Labor Law at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Doctor of Law, Professor S.Yu. Golovina

Questions for discussion:

1. Transformation of Labor and Social Security Relations in the Context of the Formation of a New Technological Order
2. The Correlation of the Economic and Social Functions of Labor Law in Modern Conditions
3. Algorithmic Labor Management and the Limits of Acceptable Digital Surveillance and Control of Employees
4. Legal Framework for the Application of Advanced IT Technologies in HR Administration
5. Digital Employee Profiling as a Component of Achieving the National Goal of "Technological Leadership"
6. Balance of the Interests of Employees and Employers in the Face of Technological Challenges. Moral and Ethical Aspects of Using Digital Technologies in HR Management
7. The Role of Social Dialogue in the Context of the Disintegration of Workforces Against the Background of Increasing Individualization of Working Conditions and Algorithmic Management
8. New Contours of State Policy in the Sphere of Labor and Employment Aimed at Adapting to Technological Change
9. Realizing the Potential of the New Technological Order to Ensure Decent Work and Social Inclusion

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom B

Moderators:

• N.E. Kolobaeva, PhD in Law, Director of the Media and Telecommunications Law (Medipravo) Competence Center, Associate Professor of the Constitutional Law Department at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University.
• M.V. Khokholkov, Media Lawyer, Expert at the Personal Data Competence Center of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media for the Urals Federal District, Member of the Advertising Expert Council of the Federal Antimonopoly Service for the Sverdlovsk Region, and Expert of the Business Community Working Group on Advertising at the Analytical Center under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Questions for discussion:

1. Ethics and Law in the Age of Synthetic Media
2. Digital Sovereignty vs. Human Rights
3. Platform Responsibility and Artificial Intelligence
4. Human-Centered Design and the Legal Environment
5. Regulatory Sandboxes and Preemptive Regulation
6. Global Cooperation and Standards

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom C

Moderators:

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Yarkov, Head of the Department of Civil Procedure at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Professor, Doctor of Law, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
• Igor Gennadievich Rentz, Head of the Department of International Law, Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Associate Professor, Doctor of Law, Doctor of Law (University Paris East)

Questions for discussion:

1. Forum shopping in the modern world
2. Cross-border bankruptcy as a mechanism for protecting Russian creditors
3. Criteria for selecting an arbitration center: a dilemma for Russian individuals
4. Supranational courts (the Court of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Court of Justice of the EU) in the system of protecting the rights and interests of business entities: jurisdiction and legal nature of decisions
5. Legal assistance in commercial disputes: issues of obtaining evidence and notification
6. Recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and international arbitration awards

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Silver

Moderators:

• Vladimir Sergeevich Belykh - Head of the V.S. Yakushev Department of Entrepreneurial Law at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor
• Oleg Anatolyevich Gerasimov - Professor of the V.S. Yakushev Department of Entrepreneurial Law at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor

Questions for discussion:

1. Legal analysis of Federal Law No. 16 "On Transport Security" / Federal Law No. 35 "On Counteracting Terrorism" and its bylaws: effectiveness, duplication of requirements, conflicts, and imperfections.
2. Practical application: examples of duplicate document processing, inspections, and installation of technical equipment.
3. Financial and operational costs for businesses.
4. Regulators' perspective: opportunities for coordination and consolidation of requirements.
5. Proposals for legislative amendments or interdepartmental agreements.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Topaz

Moderator:

• Khazanov Sergey Dmitrievich - Head of the Department of Administrative Law at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor

Questions for discussion:

1. Interim results of the implementation of the Concept for Improving Control (Supervisory) Activities until 2026.
2. Challenges in adapting the processes for organizing and implementing control (supervisory) and preventive measures by control (supervisory) bodies.
3. Application of a risk assessment and management system in the implementation of state control (supervision) and municipal control: features and operational challenges.
4. The impact of digital transformation processes on regulatory frameworks in the field of state control (supervision).
5. Challenges in coordinating control and supervisory activities during the implementation of state information systems.
6. Digitalization of control and supervisory activities in the context of the use of artificial intelligence systems.
7. Updating the processes for implementing control (supervision) by control and supervisory bodies in the absence of information systems.
8. Improving the tools for assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of control (supervisory) bodies through the use of digital platforms and information services.
9. A system for pre-trial appeals of decisions of control (supervisory) bodies and the actions (inactions) of their officials in electronic form. Challenging orders from regulatory and supervisory authorities in court: using remote methods of accessing justice.
10. The challenges of harmonizing legislation on regulatory and supervisory activities and legislation on administrative offenses in the Eurasian region, given the presence of multiple information systems at different levels in regulatory (supervisory) authorities.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Emerald

Moderators:

• Bronislav Michislavovich Gongalo – Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Civil Law of the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Director of the Ural Branch of the S.S. Alekseev Presidential Research Center for Private Law, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation;
• Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Novoselova - Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Intellectual Rights at the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Intellectual Property Rights Court (in honorable retirement).

Questions for discussion:

1. Software Development Contract: Subcontracting, Services, or R&D?
2. What alternative to the "quality of work performed" category can be used to evaluate development results?
3. Criteria for the materiality of defects in developed software.
4. The legal nature of the Private Technical Specification (PTS) and the Test Program and Methodology (TPM) and their importance when concluding a software development contract and accepting its results.
5. Acceptable limits for the use of open source by developers.
6. Best practices for software review. What takes priority – the actual cost of development or the fulfillment of functional requirements? Who should be the reviewer?
7. Is the software developer solely liable under the contract, or can they be held liable for tortious acts resulting from the use of the developed software by the customer or third parties?
8. Can the rule on hidden defects be applied to software development, and what are the criteria in this case?
9. What rules govern the distribution of liability between the customer for improper assistance in development and the developer for failure to fulfill functional requirements for the software as a result of its development.
10. Is the developer responsible for user data and datasets?

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Crystal

Moderator:

• Head of the Department of Judicial Activity and Criminal Procedure named after P.M. Davydov, Doctor of Law, N.V. Azarenko

Questions for discussion:

1. Objective opportunities, obstacles, and limits of digitalization of the judicial system and criminal proceedings.
2. Transformation of the principles of criminal procedure in the context of digitalization.
3. Issues of proof and evidence in the context of digitalization.
4. Ensuring the rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests of participants in criminal proceedings.
5. Digitalization and differentiation of criminal proceedings.
6. Implementation of digital technologies in the educational process.

Location of the event: Demidov Business House, conference hall. Yekaterinburg, Boris Yeltsin Street 3/2

Moderators:

• Grishechkin Vladimir Vladimirovich – candidate of legal sciences, partner of the Legio Bar Association
• Konkov Kirill Aleksandrovich – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Business Law named after. V.S. Yakushev Ural State University named after. V.F. Yakovleva, Chairman of the Legio Bar Association
• Mikhalev Kirill Andreevich – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law, Ural State Law University named after. V.F. Yakovlev and the Research Center for Private Law named after S.S. Alekseeva under the President of the Russian Federation (Ural branch), lawyer

Questions for discussion:

1. Legal mechanisms and risks of establishing corporate control through digital financial asset ownership: the relationship between rights recording in an information system and a traditional registry (the Unified State Register of Legal Entities).
2. Determining the composition and scope of liability of governing bodies when making decisions based on artificial intelligence recommendations.
3. The procedure for identifying, seizing, and selling a debtor's digital assets in bankruptcy proceedings.
4. Grounds and procedure for qualifying (nullity/contestability) transactions with digital financial assets and transactions executed automatically through smart contracts.
5. LegalTech tools in corporate governance and insolvency: automated due diligence, digital document management, predictive analytics.
6. Necessary changes to corporate and insolvency legislation to recognize the legal significance of decisions mediated by distributed ledger technologies and AI.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Platinum

Moderators:

1. Vladimir Ivanovich Sherpaev – Professor, Department of Theory of State and Law named after S.S. Alekseev, Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Head of the Ural Branch of the Academy of Military Sciences, Doctor of Political Science, Candidate of Philosophy, Associate Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Sciences
2. Sergey Aleksandrovich Trakhimyonok – Professor, Belarusian State University of Economics, Doctor of Law, Full Member of the Academy of Military Sciences
3. Vladimir Fedorovich Shchelokov – General Director of the Union of Enterprises of Defense Industries of the Sverdlovsk Region, member of the Public Chamber of the Sverdlovsk Region, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Sciences
4. Viktor Petrovich Chasovskikh – Professor, Department of Chess Art and Computer Mathematics, Ural State University of Economics, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Full Member of the Academy of Military Sciences
5. Viktor Sergeevich Pletnikov – Professor, Department of Theory of State and Law named after S.S. Alekseev, Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovleva, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Sciences

Questions for discussion:

1. Geopolitical and Military Threats to Russia's Security
2. Extremism, Terrorism, and Nationalism as a Threat to Russia's National Security
3. Digitalization of Education: Origins, Risks, and Areas for Improving Legislation
4. Spiritual and Moral Sovereignty of Society
5. Experience and Recommendations for Resolving Modern Military Conflicts
6. The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 In the historical consciousness of Soviet and post-Soviet society
7. New development strategy until 2036: balancing state defense procurement, exports, and civic engagement
8. Building a new strategic security architecture: illusions and reality
9. Mobilization of military-industrial resources and potential for new tasks in the SVO zone
10. Maintaining the course toward strengthening the unity of Russian society and supporting military personnel
11. Legal chatbots and virtual assistants: development prospects in Russian practice
12. AI assistants in legal practice: from contract drafting to due diligence
13. The principle of legal stability and the digitalization of social relations
14. Legal forecasting within the framework of the digitalization process
15. Law and technological sovereignty

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Crystal

Questions for discussion:

1. Criminal-legal assessment of mining;
2. Energy as a subject of property crimes;
3. Criminal-legal assessment of attacks on energy infrastructure facilities;
4. Criminal-legal assessment of the consequences of illegal and unmetered energy consumption;
5. Historical and comparative legal aspects of criminal-legal protection of the energy sector;
6. Gaps and defects in legal regulation in the sphere of criminal-legal protection of energy security.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom A

Moderators:

• S. Yu. Golovina, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Labor Law at the V. F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University
• P. U. Kuznetsov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Information Law at the V. F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University

Questions for discussion:

1. Digital Profile Issues as an Interdisciplinary Discourse
2. Digital Profile as a Category
3. Digital Profile as an Object of Public Law
4. Digital Profile as an Object of Labor Law
5. Comparative Legal Methods of Digital Profile Research

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Topaz

Moderators:

1. Lyudmila Nikolaevna Berg - Professor, Department of Theory of State and Law named after S.S. Alekseev, Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Doctor of Law, Associate Professor
2. Aleksey Vladimirovich Lisachenko - Associate Professor, Department of Civil Law, Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev, Candidate of Law

Questions for discussion:
1. Biolaw: A Next-Generation Field or a Theoretical Illusion?
Does the attempt to institutionalize biolaw as an independent field lead to doctrinal simplification and the erosion of basic categories of legal theory?
2. Limits of Legal Impact on Biosocial Processes.
Is Strengthening Public Control over Biological Resources and Data a Condition for Security or a Threat to Individual Autonomy and Scientific Freedom?
3. Law as a Barrier or a Catalyst for Biotechnological Development?
Does Law Limit Innovation in the Bioeconomy or, on the contrary, Create Conditions for Sustainable and Socially Acceptable Technological Growth?
4. Positive Law or Legal Uncertainty?
To what extent are framework, evaluative, and programmatic legal constructs permissible in the bioeconomy, and do they undermine the principle of legal certainty?
5. Synthesis of Law and Technology: Who Sets the Rules of the Game?
Should norms be formed primarily by the state, the scientific community, or the technology corporations themselves?
6. International standards or national models?
Is it possible to develop the bioeconomy based on universal international approaches, or is legal uniqueness acceptable in the interests of national technological sovereignty?

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom A

Moderator:

• Professor of the Department of Labor Law at Ural State Law University named after. V.F. Yakovleva, Doctor of Law, Professor Fedorova M.Yu.

Questions for discussion:

1. Social security in the era of transition to a post-industrial society and a digital, innovative economy: systemic challenges and the role of law in overcoming them.
2. Interdisciplinary interaction between social security law and other branches of law in ensuring the digital security of recipients of social benefits and services.
3. The development of high technologies, automation of production, and other means of achieving technological leadership in the context of their impact on the social security of certain categories of citizens.
4. The adaptability of the solidarity model of social security to new technological challenges.
5. Digitalization of social security procedures: operational templates and a flexible reality.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom B

Moderators:

• P.U. Kuznetsov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Information Law at the V.F. Yakovlev USLU
• A.N. Mochalov, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law at the V.F. Yakovlev USLU

Questions for discussion:

1. The Sovereign State of Technological Policy
2. Real and Virtual Sovereign Technological Equality of States
3. Digital and Real State Borders
4. Sovereign Technological Support for Artificial Intelligence
5. Protection of Constitutional Rights in the Context of Digital Inequality

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom C

Moderators:

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Yarkov, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of the Department of Civil Procedure at the Ural State Law University named after V. F. Yakovlev, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honorary President of the Notary Chamber of the Sverdlovsk Region.
• Igor Gennadievich Renz, Doctor of Law, Professor, Doctor of Laws (France), Head of the Department of International Law at the Ural State Law University named after V. F. Yakovlev.

Questions for discussion:

1. Features of notarial protection in the digital space.
2. Challenges in performing notarial acts when registering rights to digital instruments.
3. Prospects for the development of electronic interaction between the Russian Federation's notary services and other agencies and organizations, including those of foreign countries.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Silver

Moderators:

• Vladimir Sergeevich Belykh - Head of the V.S. Yakushev Department of Entrepreneurial Law at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor
• Oleg Anatolyevich Gerasimov - Professor of the V.S. Yakushev Department of Entrepreneurial Law at the V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor

Questions for discussion:

1. The "investments instead of fines" concept for ensuring technological leadership in the real economy.
2. Investments in the real economy based on a program implemented under the "Science and Innovation" domain project.
3. The lack of best available technology and the good faith of the business entity as grounds for exemption from legal liability.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Platinum

Moderators:

• Maxim Vladimirovich Goncharov, First Vice-Rector of USLU
• Representatives of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
• Representatives of the Federal State Autonomous Institution "Sociocenter"
• Representatives of the Association of Lawyers of Russia

Questions for discussion:

1. Interim Results of the Higher Education System Reform: Draft New Educational Standards for Legal Education
2. The Degree of Fundamentalism and Flexibility of Educational Standards and Curricula for Higher Legal Education
3. Specialization and Profiling of Basic Higher Legal Education
4. Digitalization and Online Education: Limits of Acceptability in Lawyer Training
5. International Cooperation in Higher Legal Education
6. Developing Professional Legal Awareness and Corporate Culture as a Defining Competency of Legal Education

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Emerald

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom C

Moderators:

• Mikhail Tevs – Head of Legal Services, IT lawyer, co-founder and enthusiast of the ilovedocs community
• Nikita Smetanin – Director of the Institute of Public Prosecution at the V. F. Yakovlev USLU, PhD in Law

Questions for discussion:

1. Key neural networks in legal practice.
2. Trends in the use of neural networks in legal practice.
3. Automation of legal work using neural networks.
4. Risks and ethics of using neural networks in legal practice.
5. Neural networks and law students: prospects for using neural networks in higher education.

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Ballroom B

Moderator:

• Andrey Vadimovich Nechkin – Doctor of Law, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law at the Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev

Questions for discussion:

1. Form of government, modern technologies, and technological leadership (the influence of the form of government on technological development and the state's economy; the problem of synthesizing new forms of government by states; the institution of the head of state/national leader as a driver of the state's economic and technological development; political and economic leadership, etc.)
2. Direct democracy institutions in the context of the widespread introduction of modern technologies: risks and prospects (the introduction of modern technologies in the electoral process; participatory democracy institutions: current status and development prospects, etc.);
3. Parliament and alternative forms of popular representation: current status and development prospects in the context of the widespread introduction of modern technologies and the goal of achieving technological leadership (the role of parliament in a state striving for technological leadership; the problem of forming alternative representative bodies to parliament in modern states, etc.);
4. The legislative process and modern technologies (the introduction of modern technologies in the legislative process; improving legal monitoring mechanisms and law enforcement monitoring; improving the institution of legal expertise, etc.);
5. The government and other executive bodies: possible ways to improve their performance in the context of the widespread adoption of modern technologies to achieve technological leadership;
6. Local self-government in the context of the widespread adoption of modern technologies: current status and possible prospects (challenges of integrating modern technologies into municipal rule-making and local issue resolution; municipal participatory budgeting and modern technologies; modern technologies and the implementation of local self-government in cities with a population of over one million; modern technologies in municipal property management).

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Silver

Moderators:

• M.A. Bazhina, Doctor of Law, Professor, Department of Entrepreneurial Law, V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University
• A.N. Gulemin, Candidate of Law, Associate Professor, Department of Information Law, V.F. Yakovlev Ural State Law University

Questions for discussion:

1. Legal instruments for accelerating the transition to the widespread use of ATS and unmanned aerial systems in key sectors
2. Civil and administrative liability for the use of ATS?
3. A regime for data collected by ATS
4. The role of constituent entities of the Russian Federation in creating regional "unmanned" ecosystems
5. Training personnel in the field of legal support for ATS

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Platinum

Moderator:

• Bazhina Maria Anatolyevna, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Entrepreneurial Law named after V.S. Yakushev, Ural State Law University named after V.F. Yakovlev

Questions for discussion:
Section I. General Issues of Legal Regulation of ITS Application
- Conceptual Framework of Legal Regulation of ITS Application;
- Elements of ITS: Fragmented Regulation or a Unified Approach;
- Data Protection When Using ITS;
- Limits of Technical Regulation of ITS Application;
- Legal Regulation of Platform Solutions in the Context of ITS Application;
- Transport Safety in the Context of ITS Application;
- International Experience in ITS Application

Section II. Legal Regulation of the Application of Individual ITS Elements
- Autonomous Vessels, Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Highly Automated Vehicles, Autonomous Robots: The Legal Basis for the Transition to Technological Leadership;
- Real and Virtual Infrastructure as the Foundation for Implementing Technological Leadership

Location of the event: Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Emerald