Review of the All-Russian scientific-practical conference «Interests in law» held at the Law Institute of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (on March 25-26, 2016)

On 25-26th of March 2016 all-Russian scientific-practical conference «Interests in law» took place in People’s Friendship University of Russia. It was initiated by the Department of theory and history of state and law and co-organized by Institute of State and Law of the RAS, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Gerzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Association of Law Schools of Russia. During the conference different aspects of problem of interests in law were discussed, e.g. influence of the interests on the evolution of law and society in different periods of their history and development, communication of legal contact subjects as carriers of subjective rights and obligations, interdependence of and interaction of public and private interests in lawmaking, law enforcement and law schools’ educational process. Present review includes general conception of the conference, participants’ main ideas and fragments of their speeches mirrored to certain extent the level of comprehending the conference’ main problem by scientific society of Russia and neighboring states.

legal science, methodology of legal science, interests in law, legal education, public interests, private interests, subjective rights, lawmaking, law enforcement