366 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW The conference held at the MSAL International Law Department on 8 April, 2016 By Larissa Zakharova (Russian Federation) Author PhD (Law), cum laude, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, 2005 Associate Professor, Chair of International Law, Russia, 123995, Moscow, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya Street, 9 lizakharova@msal.ru 10.17803/2313-5395.2016.2.6.366―370 Within the framework of the III Moscow Legal Forum the International Law Department of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL) organized a conference on the future of international law. <...> This event brought together leading international lawyers from various Russian universities and state bodies. <...> The Head of the MSAL International Law Department Professor Kamil A.Bekyashev gave an opening speech to greet the scholarly audience. <...> He announced the plans to prepare an academic course in international law in 8 volumes, with the MSAL International Law Department acting as the secretariat coordinating the implementation of this project. www.kulawr.ru Volume 2 Оctober 2016 Issue 2(6) Larissa Zakharova The Future of International Law 367 Professor Aslan H. Abashidze, Head of the International Law Department of the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia underlined in his presentation that international law under the conditions of globalization, which became an objective reality, does not need so much further modification but the implementation of international legal obligations by the states. <...> Professor Adel I. Abdullin, Head of the International and European Law Department of the Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University devoted his speech to the law of international organizations, problems and prospects of their development. <...> He expressed his regrets pointing to the absence of fundamental studies of this subject in the modern legal doctrine in Russia and the hope that a new textbook that would be presented by the International and European Law Department of the Kazan State University would fill the gap. <...> Head of the International Law Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University scrutinizied the reasons and the limits of norm-making in the activities of international courts. <...> For instance, Volume 2 Оctober 2016 Issue 2(6) www.kulawr.ru 368 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Russia asked the World Trade Organization for an advisory opinion in respect <...>