At the meeting held virtually on 1 November 2021 the Advisory Board discussed, inter alia, the amended curriculum of the LLM program, employment opportunities for the program’s graduates and research projects undertaken by the master students.

Saint Petersburg State University’s two-year Master in Public International Law was launched in 2019 and offers a unique curriculum comprising courses in advanced public international law and various specialist courses in human rights, international investment and trade law, international law of the sea and others.

The Advisory Board of the Program includes Professors Andrea Bjorklund (McGill University), Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou (University of Liverpool), Judge Roman Kolodkin (ITLOS), Ms Ananstasia Kushleyko (ICRC), Ms Victoria Manko (International and Comparative Law Research Center), Ms Elina Morozova (Intersputnik) and Mr Vladimir Talanov (Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners).

Sergey Usoskin serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of the program and co-teaches ‘International Law in Practice‘ course.