Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the activities of the 5th session of the International Forum “Crime and Criminal Law in the Age of Globalization”, which took place on October 26-28, 2013 in Beijing, and united over 200 scientists and experts from 19 states of the world: Argentina, Brazil, the Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Italy, Canada, China (including Hong Cong and Macao), Columbia, Russia, Serbia, the USA, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, as well as the representatives of the UNO, the Europol and the International Association for Criminology. The motto of the forum was “Unite the people in the world for the new global anti-corruption era”. The resolution of the forum reflected the main approaches towards the criminal policy of the states at the current stage of development of the international criminal law, and national legal system in the sphere of fighting corruption. Resolution contains the opinion of the scientists and experts from the leading states of the world on the issues of optimization of criminal law and criminological measures for fighting corruption at the age of globalization.

Keywords: Beijing, international forum, corruption, globalization, criminological science, criminal policy in the sphere of fighting corruption, international legal regulation in the sphere of fighting corruption, criminal law means, optimization of means against corruption, resolution of the forum.

Keywords: yurisprudentsiya, yuridicheskaya nauka, integratsiya nauk, razvitie nauki, teoriya prava, otraslevye nauki, krizis nauki, ponimanie prava, yuridicheskaya globalizatsiya, yuridicheskaya praktika, yuridicheskoe tselepolaganie.

Keywords: yurisprudentsiya, Kazakhstan, mezhdunarodnyi kruglyi stol, mezhdunarodnaya konferentsiya, razrabotka Ugolovnogo kodeksa, novaya kontseptsiya ugolovnogo zakona, prestuplenie, ugolovnyi prostupok.

Abstract: The article includes a brief overview of a theoretical seminar, which was held on the initiative of the Department of Criminal Law of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, and which was devoted to the ‘Anti- Corruption Expertise of Criminal Legislation». The reports and speeches were devoted to the topical issues regarding the provisions of criminal law, which provoke corruption. The forensic and anti-corruption expertises are distinguished. The key directions of the anti-corruption expertise of criminal legislation regarding qualification of crimes and their elements are established. The typical corruption-provoking factors in the norms of criminal law are discussed.

Keywords: jurisprudence, anti-corruption expertise, anti-corruption legislation, criminal legislation of the Russian Federation, forensic expertise, key directions for the anti-corruption expertise, goals and aims of the anticorruption expertise, corruption-causing factor, criminal risks, the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus.

Abstract: The session of the Section on Constitutional and Municipal Law of the IV International Scientific and Practical Conference «Readings named after O.E. Kutafin», which was held on November 28, 2012, included speeches of the renowned scientists from Russia and Ukraine, politicians and statesmen on the topical issues of constitutional and municipal law. In the speeches, the overview of which is provided for the readers of this article, the speakers view the problems and perspectives of development of people’s rule in Russia and Ukraine, political elements of constitutional law, goals of the science of constitutional law in the sphere of improvement of legislation on federal relations, municipal government, elections, citizenship, mass actions. The authors also touch upon the problems of constitutional norm control and constitutional justice. The participants analyzed doctrinal problems and issues of practical application of law. It is noted that the annual Readings named after O.E. Kutafin, where many problems of constitutional development of Russia, as reflected in the scientific heritage of O.E. Kutafin, are being discussed, allow to develop his ideas and to facilitate the constitutional development of the state.

Keywords: jurisprudence, Readings named after Kutafin, democracy, elections, Election Code, human rights, norm control, constitutional justice, citizenship, politics.

Abstract: The article includes the review of the work of the Advocacy Section of the IV Readings named after O.E. Kutafin, which was combined with the VIII annual scientific and practical conference «Advocacy. State. Society». Within the framework of the section of advocacy the participants discussed such important scientific and practical issues in the sphere of advocacy, as amendments to the Code of Professional Ethics of Advocates, taxation of advocates, specific features of application of status rights of advocate, including the sphere of defense in criminal case. The authors provide the theses from the speeches in this section, as well as the these of polemic speeches during the discussion.

Keywords: jurisprudence, advocate, status, rights, ethics, code, taxation, methodology, science, commission.