S.F. Udartsev, Doctor of Law, Professor, Head of Research Projects on Legal Policy, Constitutional Legislation, and Public Administration (M. Narikbayev KAZGUU University) took part in two thesis committees of St. Petersburg State University.
As is commonly known, after the introduction of autonomy, St. Petersburg State University, as well as M. Lomonosov Moscow State University have the right to independently determine the rules for defending theses, conferring the academic degrees of a candidate of science, Ph.D. doctor, doctor of science and issuing appropriate diplomas. St. Petersburg State University has adopted the regulations according to which for defending each thesis in legal sciences, a separate thesis committee is created, which consists of 5-6 doctors of legal sciences, each of which simultaneously acts as an official opponent and submits a thesis review, which is published on the university’s website. In this regard, such former thesis defense institutes as two or three official opponents and a leading organization have been canceled. Out of the 5-6 members of the thesis committee, two may be from St. Petersburg State University, two from other Russian universities, and 1-2 invited foreign scientists, experts in the field of the defended thesis.
In recent months, Prof. S.F. Udartsev acted as an invited foreign scientist – a member of the thesis committee of St. Petersburg State University on two theses:
1. Valery Vladimirovich Pugachev’s thesis on the topic: ‘Conceptual framework of the political and legal doctrine of Abul A’la Maududi: a critical analysis’ submitted for the degree of candidate of legal sciences in specialty 12.00.01. – Theory and History of Law and State; History of the doctrines of law and state (St. Petersburg, 2019). January 28, 2020
The Review published: S.F. Udartsev Review from a member of the Thesis Committee on Pugachev Valery Vladimirovich’s thesis on the topic: ‘Conceptual framework of the political and legal doctrine of Abu-A‘la Maududi: a critical analysis’, submitted for the degree of candidate of legal sciences in specialty 12.00.01. – Theory and History of Law and State; History of the doctrines of law and state (St. Petersburg, 2019). January 10, 2020 – 10 p. // Official website of St. Petersburg State University. Theses committees of St. Petersburg State University. Pugachev V.V. URL: https://disser.spbu.ru/files/2020/otzyv_pugachev_udartsev.pdf
Other members of the one-time thesis committee of five people for this thesis were: Timoshina E.V., Doctor of Law, Professor, St. Petersburg State University (Chairman); Lukovskaya D.I., Doctor of Law, Professor, St. Petersburg State University; Isayev I.A., Doctor of Law, Professor, Kutafin Moscow State Law University; Syukiyainen L.R., Doctor of Law, Professor, National Research University, Higher School of Economics (Moscow).
2. The thesis of Vasilyeva Natalia Sergeyevna on the topic: ‘The problem of the validity of law in the legal concept of Alfa Ross’ (St. Petersburg, 2019), specialty 12.00.01. – Theory and History of Law and State; History of the doctrine of law and state (legal sciences). Under the quarantine regime, the defense took place online on May 19, 2020.
The Review published: Udartsev S.F. Review by a member of the Thesis Committee on the thesis of Natalia Sergeyevna Vasilyeva on the topic: ‘The problem of the validity of law in the legal concept of Alfa Ross’ (St. Petersburg, 2019), submitted for the degree of candidate of legal sciences in specialty 12.00.01. – Theory and History of Law and State; History of the doctrine of law and state (legal sciences). – 13 p. // Official website of theses committees of St. Petersburg State University (on the thesis of N. S. Vasilyeva) URL: https://disser.spbu.ru/files/2020/otzyv_vasileva_udartsev.pdf
The members of this thesis were also: Lukovskaya D.I., Doctor of Law, Professor, St. Petersburg State University (Chairman); Kozlikhin I.Yu., Doctor of Law, Professor, St. Petersburg State University; Lapayeva V.V., Doctor of Law, Professor, Chief Researcher, Sector of Philosophy of Law, Theory, and History of State and Law, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow); Chestnov I.L., Doctor of Law, Professor, Department of Theory and History of State and Law, St. Petersburg Law Institute (Branch) of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation (St. Petersburg); Stovba A.V., Doctor of Law, Professor, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Methodological Work of the Kharkiv Institute of Management (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
The participation of scientists in theses committees of leading foreign universities contributes to the development of scientific relations between universities in different countries.