Leschenkov F.A. Review of IV International Congress of Comparative Law “Time and Space in International and National Law”

Abstract: The article is devoted to the IVth International Congress of Comparative Law devoted to the theme “Time and Space in International and National Law” which was organized on 3th – 4th of December, 2014 by the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of Russian Federation with the participation of the Venice Commission and where have taken part many leading Russian and foreign specialists in the field of comparative jurisprudence and international law. Within the framework of the Congress there three sections “Problems of Sovereignty and Spatial Limits of State Power”, “Temporal Action of Law in Comparative Law Perspective”, “Territories in International Law: Practical Issues”, round table “Norms of National Law in the Focus of International Justice”, round table of young comparative law specialists “Problems of Modern Legal Spaces”. At the plenary session there were two main reports presented by V. Lafitsky, the deputy director of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Russian Federation Government, and by E. Tunchev, deputy chairman of the European Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission of the Council of Europe). Plenary session was continued by three discussion sessions “International Normative Legal Comprehension of Space and Time”, “Space and Time in the Legal Doctrine of Modern World”, “Harmonization of International Law and National Law Models of Space and Time”.

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