358 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW RUSSIAN SEASONS IN THE LIFE OF THE LEGAL COMMUNITY OVERVIEW OF THE THIRD MOSCOW LEGAL FORUM By Olga Shevchenko (Russian Federation) Author Doctor of Science (Law), Kutafin Moscow State Law University, 2007 Professor, Chair of Labour Law and Social Security Law Russia, 123995, Moscow, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street, 9 labourlaw@bk.ru 10.17803/2313-5395.2016.2.6.358―365 On April 6―9, 2016, the Kutafin University (Moscow State Law Academy) hosted the Third Moscow Legal Forum “Russian Law Development: New Contexts and Finding Problems Solution.” The Forum history dates back to 2014, when two major international conferences traditionally held by. <...> Kutafin University, namely Kutafin’s Scientific Conference and Young Scientists’ Conference “Traditions and Innovations in the System of Modern Russian Law”, as well as a number of round tables and discussion forums, merged into a single integrated research platform. <...> The idea of the Forum is to establish professional communication between the luminaries of legal science and practice and young scientists, www.kulawr.ru Volume 2 Оctober 2016 Issue 2(6) Olga Shevchenko Overview of the Third Moscow Legal Forum 359 between those who apply the law and those who teach it. <...> Still, the name of Oleg Emelyanovich Kutafin remains the center of attraction for scholars and experts discussing the most complicated and important aspects of the theory and practice of the Russian legislation perfection and perspectives of legal education. <...> The high level of representation and cooperation of the Forum with the leading law schools both in Russia and abroad, the Forum cooperation with such public authorities as the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, the Supreme Court bodies (the Constitutional Court, the Court of Intellectual Property Rights) ensure the relevance of the Russian legal system development issues that became the area of discussion at the Forum. <...> The plenary session precedes a number of important scientific events: numerous conferences devoted to different branches of law, round tables, scientific and practical seminars, presentations, and exhibitions of modern juridical literature. <...> The Forum organizers strive for providing meaningful integration of students, graduate students, and young teachers into greater legal science. <...> During the formal <...>