Larissa Zakharova Highlights of the VI St. Petersburg International Legal Forum HIGHLIGHTS OF THE VI ST. PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL LEGAL FORUM 371 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 10.17803/2313-5395.2016.2.6.371―375 The VI St. Petersburg International Legal Forum that took place on May 18–21, 2016 in the State Hermitage General Staff Building gathered 3750 participants coming from 77 states including Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Great Britain, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Canada, Singapore, the United States, Ukraine, France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Japan. <...> Eight ministers of justice and twelve deputy ministers were present as honorary guests. <...> There arrived high officials from various international organizations such as the World International Property Organization (WIPO), the Council of Europe Venice Commission, the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT), the European Commission for the Efficiency of Volume 2 Оctober 2016 Issue 2(6) www.kulawr.ru 372 KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Justice. <...> Foreign constitutional and supreme courts were represented by thirty-four delegations; twenty-three of them were headed by the chairmen or their deputies. <...> In the course of the Forum business program over five hundred prominent scholars and practitioners in different fields of law voiced their views, 60% of participants were from the Russian Federation and 40% were foreign guests. <...> The business program comprised over 70 events including conferences, presentations, lectures and discussions in seven thematic sections on private law; industry, trade and competitiveness; courts and arbitration tribunals’ jurisprudence; smart society; investments and finance; international law, security and the rule of law; legal profession. <...> The “Kutafin University Law Review” enjoyed the prestigious status of an information partner of the Forum, and its representatives followed the insightful discussions on most pressing issues in the fields of law, politics, and economics. <...> On May 18 <...>