Advisory Board and Administration

The Advisory Board, in particular, determines the issues of the School’s Special courses, its experts and students.

Members of the Advisory Board

Roman Kolodkin

Judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2017-present), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands, Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (2009-2015), Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (2001-2009, 2015-2017), Member, Institut de Droit International (2009-present), Member, International Law Commission (2003-2011, 2015-2018), Director of Public International Law Studies (2017-2020), Advisor on Public International Law (2020-present) at the International and Comparative Law Research Center, Ph.D. (Law)

Sergey Punzhin

Ph.D. (Law), Principal Legal Secretary of the Court, Head of the Department of Legal Matters, International Court of Justice, Associated Member, Institut de Droit International (2020-present)

Leonid Skotnikov

Member of the International Court of Justice (2006–2015), Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva and to the Conference on Disarmament (2001–2005), Director of the Legal Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1991-–992, 1998–2001), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Netherlands (1992–1998)

Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov

Professor of International Law, Merited Jurist of the Russian Federation, Vice-President of the Russian Association of International Law, Member of the Committee against Torture, Ad hoc Judge of the European Court of Human Rights (Ukraine v. Russia), senior staff member of the Secretariat of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (1992–2016), Trial Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (2009–2012), Appeals Judge, the UN International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia (2012–2015)

Sergey Usoskin

Attorney (Advocate), Double Bridge Law. Sergey's practice focuses on international and cross-border cases including inter-state disputes and investment arbitration. He teaches public international law courses at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and the Saint Petersburg State University