Magisters supports All-Russian Law Students’ Competition

June 29, 2010

On June 25, 2010 the results of the all-Russian legal academic competition of students' papers were announced in Moscow. The competition, established by Corporate Lawyer Magazine and the Law Faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, is conducted with the support of leading players on the Russian legal market.

This year, Magisters, which has already supported the competition for the past two consecutive years, introduced an academic paper on international commercial arbitration in Russia. According to the assessment of the panel of judges and Magisters' lawyers, the best paper in this category was that of Timur Abushakhmanov, a student of the Bashkir State University, on the arbitrability of real estate rights disputes.

The award ceremony took place at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Alexander Vaneev, a Moscow-based lawyer of Magisters’ Dispute Resolution practice and the author of a course on international commercial arbitration for the students of the MSLA, represented the firm at the ceremony.

“Such initiatives are extremely important to support the reputation of our profession. With each passing year, arbitration elicits ever more interest in Russia and that is why we proposed that the students work on this topic and were very pleased to receive several papers of a truly high level”, says Dmitry Dyakin, Managing Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution practice at Magisters’ Moscow office.

Timur Abushakhmanov was awarded a prize from Magisters, including the latest legal books, an opportunity to attend an arbitration conference in Moscow as well as an invitation for a secondment at Magisters.