12.12.2025

RSUH to Become a Center for Shaping a Modern Russian Legal School

On the eve of Constitution Day of the Russian Federation, leading legal scholars gathered at the Alekseev Readings at RSUH to discuss how to reform legal education under digitalization while preserving legal traditions of the past.

The Alekseev Constitutional Forum has launched at RSUH. Among the key participants were RSUH Rector Andrei Loginov, founder of the RSUH Institute of Law Sergey Shakhray, and Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, Head of the Department of Legal Support of Legality and Supervisory Activities at the RSUH Institute of Law, Sergey Stepashin.

Rector Loginov emphasized the significant contribution of Sergey Alekseev to the development of law in modern Russia and to the emergence of the Constitution as the main document that had laid the foundations of a legal state and the rule of law in a new historical era. According to the Rector, the Russian Constitution consolidated the legal results of the country’s historical path. This continuity-based approach acquires special importance in today’s multipolar world. As Andrei Loginov noted, only a solid reliance on one’s own legal tradition makes it possible to build a stable structure of state sovereignty and a just legal order.

Sergey Stepashin thanked the RSUH leadership for organizing the Forum and noted that holding the Alekseev Readings on the eve of Constitution Day was a deeply symbolic and important step in preserving Russia’s legal traditions. According to the Chairman of the Association of Lawyers of Russia, the greatest challenge in the modern world is digital transformation. Director of the RSUH Institute of Law Sergey Shakhray reminded that today, amid the development of information technologies, Russian universities must create their own digital environments and universal sectoral platforms based on domestic developments.

One such platform currently being developed by RSUH is a digital representation of Russian legislation. The organizers of the Forum are the Association of Lawyers of Russia and the Institute of Law of RSUH.