The conference was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was held at the Law Institute of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (Moscow) on 27-28 April 2018. The International Students’ Conference was attended by a delegation of 16 VSU students, which is twice as many as in 2017. More than 200 students from Minsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan and many other cities took part in the event.

Our students spoke at the sections of the conference with their reports on a wide variety of topics – from comparative studies of various legal institutions to narrower and more specific problems – such as, for example, church restitution, legal feminism, and migration policy issues.

The conference program was very rich and varied.

The first day 27 April began with excursions to governmental bodies – the State Duma and the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Office of the Ombudsman in the Russian Federation, as well as to the State Historical Museum for the exhibition “Alexander II the Liberator. 200th anniversary of birth”. Then the delegations arrived at the RUDN University to participate in the opening ceremony of the Conference and the Plenary Session, during which representatives of the participating universities – the Heads of student delegations made their best reports that set the tone for the entire scientific event. On the first day of the Conference, our students took also part in an interactive session in the format of a round table on the topic “Human rights as an achievement of civilization and culture”.

At the Plenary Session of the Voronezh State University, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory of the State and Law, International Law and Comparative Law of the Faculty of Law of Voronezh State University, Vladislav Valerievich Denisenko, as well as a fourth-year student of the Faculty of Law, Yekaterina Yurievna Kosykh gave a speech on the topic “Legal feminism: social aspect”.

The second day of the Conference consisted of sessions in five scientific sections - on the history and theory of domestic and foreign law; comparative legal research; history, theory and practice of human rights protection.

The reports of three students from VSU at once – Valeriya Pavlovna Biryukova, Yegor Pavlovich Borodin and Irina Aleksandrovna Ushakova – were especially noted by the organizers and awarded with III-degree diplomas.

The participants were very pleased with the Conference, they managed to get acquainted with colleagues from different parts of Russia and neighbouring countries, exchange scientific views, and the guys also noted that such events give a good impetus for further development in student science.