Anatoly Y. Kapustin To look the thesis...
Professor, Dr. Anatoly Kapustin is currently a Dean of Law Faculty of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow), First Vice-President of the Federal Association of the Law Faculties of Russia. President of Science and Methodical Council on the jurisprudence of the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.
He studied law at the Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow where he graduated in 1980 and received a Master's degree in International law.
From 1980 to 1983 he was postgraduate student in International Law Department of
the Peoples' Friendship University. In 1984 defended his PhD thesis. In 2001 defended his Doctoral thesis (Doctor of Science in law) on the problems of European Union Law. From 2002 full Professor of International Law at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. From 2000 he is the Head of the International Law Department (Chair) of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. He had academic train in ICRC (Geneva) in 1989 and research and teacher's practice in Salmon P. Chase Law School, Northern Kentucky University (USA) in 1994.
He has written books and articles on international law, European Law, Law of education in Russia.

Evgeniy Novikov To look the thesis...
Evgeniy Novikov is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the St. Petersburg State University and a Director of the St. Petersburg State University Law Press.
Evgeniy Novikov studied law in the St. Petersburg State University, where he graduated in 1993. He also studied law in the University of Oxford and the Cologne University. Specialist in the civil law and civil procedure, he was a practicing lawyer for years.
Before starting working as a Director of the Law Press Evgeniy Novikov was interested in publishing and bookselling. He studied the sphere of the special books distribution in Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, France and Belgium. In particular, he took part in trainership programmes in the Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Kluwer Law International, Springer, Emile Bruylant and many other well-known publishing centres.
Presently, Evgeniy Novikov is a Director of the St. Petersburg State University Law Press - a leading law books publishing centre in Russia. He is a head of the only law bookselling chain in the country.

Igor A. Drozdov To look the thesis...
Mr. Drozdov was born in 1977 in Leningrad (USSR), now resides in Moscow.
In 1999 Mr. Drozdov graduated from St.Petersburg State University (Law Dept), in 2002 he concluded his postgraduate studies and obtained a Phd degree in Civil Law. In 2002 - 2004 he worked as assistant and assistant professor of the Chair of Civil Law (Law Department) at St.-Petersburg State University. He did lecturing on Roman Law and gave classes on Civil Law.
In 2004-2005 Mr.Drozdov joined Russian civil service as Counselor of Russia's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and was responsible for preparing law drafts initiated by the Ministry.
In March 2005 he joined the Higher Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation as Head of the Secretariat of the Chairman of the Higher Arbitrazh Court of the Russian Federation with his terms of reference including administration of the Secretariat, reviewing correspondence of the Chairman, drafting documents for the Chairman and harmonizing policies and activities of different departments of the Higher Arbitrazh Court.
In his present position of Administrator-Chief of Staff of the Court he is charged with the mission of streamlining and optimizing the work of different units of the Court and supervising their activities in order to ensure their compliance with the main goals and objectives of the Higher Arbitrazh Court policy.
Mr. Drozdov has about 20 publications on different issues of Civil Law.

Ilya A. Dementyev To look the thesis...
Ilya Dementyev studied chemistry at the Saint-Petersburg State University. He graduated in 1993 with a master thesis in photochemistry. He obtained a PhD in chemistry in 1996 and took position of an Associate Professor of Natural Sciences at the same University. Since 2002 he leaded the Education department. Presently he is a vice-rector of education of St. Petersburg State University.

Mikhail V. Krotov To look the thesis...
Mikhail Krotov graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Leningradskiy State University (LGU) in 1985 and then finished his Ph.D. studies at the Chair of the Civil Law. He was working as an associate professor of the Chair of Civil Law of the LGU (since 1993), Head of the Chair of the Environment' Legal Protection (since 2000). Working at the University, he combined scientific, teaching activities together with the lawyer's practice. Since 2000 Mr. Krotov has become a Vice-Rector of the Saint Petersburg State University on legal and economic matters. Mikhail Krotov has written more than 30 scientific works on civil law, theory of obligations, maritime law. He is a co-author of the "Civil Law" textbook, commentaries to the Russian Civil Code and to the Russian Labor Code. Mr. Krotov is currently a member of the Central Council of the Association of Lawyers of Russia. Since November 7, 2005, Mr. Krotov was appointed as a Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation at the Russian Constitutional Court. President of the Russian Association of Law Libraries.

Sergei A. Belov To look the thesis...
Sergei A. Belov holds a law degree (from St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Law [SPbGU], 2000) and a candidate of law degree from the same institution (2003). He is currently a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and lectures on Russian constitutional and administrative law (in particular Russian and foreign election law) as well as on constitutional jurisprudence (both the RF Constitutional Court as well as the constitutional courts of Russia's regions). Mr. Belov has worked as an assistant to a St.Petersburg city assembly representative (1999-2001), a law clerk to a judge at the St.Peterburg Charter Court (2001-2003), and a legal advisor to a St. Petersburg vice-governor (2003). Furthermore, Mr. Belov has taken part in the work of election commissions of different levels (1997-2002). Now he is a member of St.Petersburg City Election Commission.
He is the author of "Electoral system as a legal institution" (St.Petersburg, 2005, in Russian), Case-study book on Russian constitutional law (St.Petersburg, 2004, 2006 (2nd ed.) in Russian), a number of articles on constitutional and electoral law, electoral systems and constitutional justice.

Sergey D. Knyazev To look the thesis...
Professor Sergey D. Knyazev works at Far Eastern National University (FENU) (Vladivostok, Russia) as a First Deputy Director of Institute of Law and Head of State and Administrative Law Department. In 1981 he obtained an honors degree at FENU Institute of Law. In 1985 he became a Ph.D candidate at Leningrad State University and in 1999 he defended his doctoral thesis at Saint-Petersburg State University.
He is an author of over 250 scientific publications on constitutional, administrative, municipal and election law and a member of a number of Russian legal journal editorial boards.
Since 1993 till the present time he has headed an Election Committee of Primorsky Territory and has been a member of Scientific and Methodological Board of the Russian Federation Central Election Commission.

Sergey P. Mavrin
Professor, Doctor of Law. Mr. Mavrin graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Leningradskiy State University in 1977, and from that year started to work as an assistant at the Chair of Labor Law and Labor Security. He became an associate professor in 1983 and from 1992 until 2005 headed the Chair of the Labor Law. Since 1996 Mr. Mavrin was an expert of the Committee of Experts on implementation of ILO conventions and recommendations. On February 25, 2005, he was appointed as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. On March 10, 2005, Sergey Mavrin was included in the first composition of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.

Valeriy A. Musin To look the thesis...
Professor of Law,
Head of the Civil Procedure Department of the St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Law, Director of the St. Petersburg branch office of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science.

Yuri Lubimov To look the thesis...
Yuri Lubimov studied law at the University of St. Petersburg where he graduated in 1999, and received a DEA degree in European law at the Centre Europeen Universitaire of the University Nancy 2 in France. Since 2000 he was a PhD researcher at the University of St.Petersburg and the University Paris 10 Nanterre. His field of scientific interests is civil law, commercial law, company law, the law of intellectual property, real estate law and private public partnership. Since 2004 he is coach of the St.Petersburg University team at the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration moot. He was also practicing with a number of Russian law firms. Presently he is advisor to the Russia's Minister of economic development and trade and part time teacher in civil law at the University of St.Petersburg. He is author of several scientific publications.