16th International Likhachev Scientific Conference

St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences

Saint Petersburg, Russia, 19-21 May 2016

Opening Reception at former Eliseev Palace

From right: Mr. Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; Dr. Andrey Lisitsyn-Svetlanov, Director of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. V. S. Styopin, Head of the Section of Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Prof. Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization, Austria; Mr. Genri Reznik, Vice-President of the Russian Union of Advocates; Prof. A. A. Guseinov, Director of the Institute for Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences; center: Prof. Tom Rockmore, Professor em. of Philosophy, Duquesne University, USA; greeted upon arrival (door, center): Mr. G. M. Gatilov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; far left: Prof. James K. Galbraith, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austian, USA. 

Panel Discussion, "White Spots of International Law"

Andrey Petrov University Concert Hall, 20 May 2016

Professor Hans Köchler, President of the International Progress Organization, delivers lecture on
"Contradictions and Deficiencies in the System of International Law."

Rector of St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. A. S. Zapesotsky, introduces panelists; from left: Dr. Csaba Varga, Professor at the Institute for Legal Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest; Dr. iur. Gadis Gadziev, Judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg; Prof. Hans Köchler, Austria; Dr. Andrey Lisitsyn-Svetlanov, Director of the Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Mr. Genri Reznik, Lawyer, Vice-President of the Russian Union of Advocates, Moscow; Mr. Vladimir Pligin, Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State-building at Russia's State Duma (Parliament).

Ceremony prior to the opening of the 16th International Likhachev Scientific Conference, 19 May 2016

Rector of St. Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. A. S. Zapesotsky, honors distinguished contributors to the publications of the Likhachov Conference; from left: Mr. Shaukat Aziz, former Prime Minister of Pakistan; Prof. Jerzy Wiatr, Professor of Sociology, former Minister of National Education of Poland; Prof. A. A. Guseinov, Director of the Institute for Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; Prof. Hans Köchler, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Reception at Taleon Palace Hotel (former Eliseev Palace), 18 June 2016

Hans Köchler, center, with Prof. A. A. Guseinov, left, Director of the Institute for Philosophy, and Dr. Andrey Lisitsyn-Svetlanov, right, Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Hans Köchler, left, with Prof. Jerzy J. Wiatr, former Minister of National Education of Poland.

Hans Köchler, left, with Dr. V. S. Styopin, Head of the Section of Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.