Author: zurab chkonia

The Union of Legal Scientists, as the publisher of the journal “Herald of Law”, has become a signatory to Berlin Open Access Declaration.

A memorandum of cooperation has been concluded between the Union of Legal Scientists and Grigol Robakidze University.

According to the memorandum, the parties will implement joint projects in accordance with the educational legal programme.

The University and the Union have agreed to organize joint scientific conferences, as well as trainings, public lectures, seminars on current and problematic issues of law.

According to the memorandum, special attention will be paid to the development of scientific research in the field of law.

On December 10, 2021 the academic-practical roundtable on “Human Trafficking” was organized by Union of Law Scientists and Criminal Law Chair of the Law faculty of the National Aviation University of Ukraine.

The meeting was attended by Georgian and Ukrainian academic community and practicing lawyers. The event was held in friendly environment and future plans of cooperation were also agreed. Presentations were followed by discussion.

Speakers were:

Tatiana Lisko

PhD, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, National Aviation University of Ukraine;

Adam Makharadze

Professor of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Doctor of Law;

Kakha Tsikarishvili

Member of the Union of Law Scientists, Professor of the School of Law and Politics of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs;

Boris Leonov

Chief Researcher at the Scientific Research Institute of Special Techniques and Forensics of Ukraine;

Mikheil Akimov

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law, National Academy of Internal Affairs;

Anna Politova

Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Theory of State and Law, Donetsk State University;

Victoria Sisoeva

Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Faculty of Law of Ukrainian AviationUniversity;

Natalia Semchuk

Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Faculty of Law of National Aviation University of Ukraine.

Full video recording of the meeting will be available on youtube as well as website of Union of Law Scientists and Journal “Law Herald”. You can also find the link of the video recording here:

 

The “Union of Law Scientists” invites representatives of the academic community, universities and the government, lawyers, judges, prosecutors and practicing lawyers to the academic-practical roundtable on “Human Trafficking”.

Event organizers:

• Union of Law Scholars.
• Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Faculty of Law, National Aviation University of Ukraine.

 

Date of the event – December 17, 2021.

Time – 17:00.

Working language – Russian.

The event will be held online, with a zoom platform.

Speakers:

Tatiana Lisko, PhD, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, National Aviation University of Ukraine;

Adam Makharadze, Professor of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Doctor of Law;

Kakha Tsikarishvili, Member of the Union of Law Scholars, Professor of the School of Law and Politics of the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs;

Boris Leonov, Chief Researcher at the Scientific Research Institute of Special Techniques and Forensics of Ukraine;

Mikheil Akimov, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law, National Academy of Internal Affairs;

Anna Politova, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Theory of State and Law, Donetsk State University;

Victoria Sisoeva, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Faculty of Law of Ukrainian AviationUniversity;

Natalia Semchuk, Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Procedure, Faculty of Law of National Aviation University of Ukraine.

Representatives of various universities and academic circles of Ukraine and Georgia will also take part in the event.

A discussion will be held at the end of the presentations.

The full video of the event will be available on youtube as well as on the website of the Union of Law Scientists.

Those wishing to participate can register by here before December 17, 2021, registration link  after which we will send you a meeting link through which you will be able to participate in the event.

 

Gustavo Balmaseda Hoyos, a well-known scholar, professor and lawyer from Chile, was accepted as a member of the Union by the decision of the board of the Union of Law Scientists.

Professor Gustavo Balmaseda Hoyos is a Doctor of Law (Spain), Professor of Criminal Law, Academic Director of the Center for the Study of Law in Chile, Lawyer with a specialization in Criminal Law, author of more than 40 academic publications and books.

Mr. Gustavo Hoyos has been working with the union for a year. He delivered a presentation on December 4, 2020 and November 18, 2021, at an international academic discussion organized by the Union and its publication, co-organized by the international scientific journal Herald of Law.

Congratulations to Mr. Gustavo Balmaseda Hoyos on joining the Union of Law Scientists and good luck to him!

We hope his cooperation with the union will be fruitful.

On November 18, 2021, an online international Scientific discussion on problematic issues of  Self Defense and State of Necessity in criminal law was organized by the Union of Law Scientists and the international scientific journal Herald of Law.

The discussion was held on a zoom platform.

Presenters were:

Professor Gustavo Balmaseda Hoyos (from Chile) and Kakha Tsikarishvili (from Georgia).

Professor Gustavo Balmaseda Hoyos is Doctor of Law (Spain), Professor of Criminal Law, Academic Director of the Center for Law Studies in Chile, Lawyer with a specialization in Criminal Law, author of over 40 scientific publications.

It should be noted that on December 4, 2020, Professor Gustavo Balmaseda Hoyos, gave a 1-hour lecture on “Key Aspects of Complicity Latin America and in Georgia” co-organized by the Union of Law Scientists and the Journal of the Herald of Law.

Kakha Tsikarishvili is a member of the Union of Law Scientists, professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.

The discussion was held within the framework of the pilot project “Online Scientific Discussions”.

Representatives of academic circles, lawyers, judges and lawyers participated in the discussion.

The full video of the discussion will be available on youtube, as well as on the website of the Union of Law Scientists and the magazine “Herald of Law”.

A video recording of the discussion can also be found at this link

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tmK3GkWcb8

 

Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Union of Law Scientists and the National Aviation University of Ukraine. The purpose of the memorandum is to promote the development of legal science and legal education through cooperation. According to the memorandum, it is planned to actively cooperate with the National Aviation University of Ukraine, in particular, jointly organize and conduct scientific conferences, seminars, discussions in the field of scientific research and higher education, joint participate in international grant projects, exchange of academic articles, etc.

Online scientific discussion – “Problems of Euthanasia in terms of Comparative Criminal Law” was held on April 21, 2021.

Discussion was organized by Union of Law scientists and its publication,  international scientific journal “Herald of Law” .

Professor Ketevan Mchedlishvili-Hedrich and the Head of Quality Department at non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal person “Free Development & Law Center” Tamar Ninoshvili delivered a speech during the event.

Discussion was attended by the legal scholars, representatives of universities, Constitutional Court and Prosecutor’s Office.

Discussion was held after the speeches delivered by speakers.

The event was held within the scope of pilot project “Online Scientific Discussions”.

The full video-recording of the meeting is available here:

Call for papers for the second issue of scientific journal “Herald of Law” continues.

Call for papers for the second issue of  scientific journal “Herald of Law” is now open.

Scientific Journal “Herald of law’’ is announcing call for scientific articles from 15.03.2021 to 15.05.2021.

Scientific Journal  “Herald of law’’ is an online scientific journal of the Union of Law Scientists.

Accepted scientific articles will be published online on official web site of the journal: www.heraldoflaw.com

The journal is granted International Standard Serial Number  ISSN 2667-9434.

The topics of articles

The journal will publish scientific articles on problematic issues of law or public administration. Articles should contain scientific novelty and should also have special scientific value.

Authors

Authors of articles may be Georgian or foreign researchers and PH.D. students.  In exceptional cases, authors also may be other individuals if the article has special scientific role or scientific value.

Language of Articles

Academic articles in Georgian, English, German and Russian languages (together with the abstract in English) may be submitted to be published in the journal.

Copyright

Upon the decision of the editorial board to publish the article, author agrees to transfer all the exclusive rights in his/her article to editorial board.

Upon the decision of the editorial board to publish the article, author agrees to transfer all the exclusive rights in his/her article to editorial board. The transfer of copyright should be confirmed by signing the relevant document before publishing the article and in case of the request of editorial board, by granting a license.

License covers all rights excluding moral rights. Authors have the right to adapt their own work, provided that the journal is indicated as original source.

The articles will be published under creative commons license (CC BY CA).

According to this license, the published work may be used for any purposes, including commercial purposes, provided that the original source is indicated.

This license permits any person to share, distribute, reproduce the journal or its parts, provided that the original source is appropriately indicated (including the address of web-page).

In case of adapting the published work, the person who makes such adaptation is obliged to clearly indicate about the changes.

Any new work  based on work published in this journal, should be licensed under the same terms as the published work.

There is an indication regarding the creative commons license in the journal.

Appling for publishing article 

the author submits the article in electronic form within the deadline determined by the contest and written request to the Chief-editor about the publication of article.  article and statement should be submitted on following e-mail: info@heraldoflaw.com

The author sends article with personal information and contact information that will be saved in the editorial archive.

The articles should be done in accordance with the publication rules for articles.

The editorial office checks the conformity of the submitted article with the rules.

The editorial board will not accept or consider a article which does not match with the  special rules . Also, Editorial board will not accept article if author breaks ethical standards or if there is any type of plagiarism.

before sending it to the reviewers, editor may make recommendations to the author about editing article. In this case, editor can set a special time for author. If the author fully corrects mistakes the article will be accepted for review.

By submitting the article to the journal, the author confirms that he is familiar and agrees with the ethics, concept, contest and rules of publication.

The author gives to Journal special right on article. The author must inform editorial board in case  changing contact information. Otherwise, any message will be sent to the original email address or contact phone and will be deemed to have been delivered.

The editorial staff will contact with the author of the article (in the case of the article presented by several authors, to one of the authors).

Rules for reviewing articles

The article will be send  to two reviewers, selected by the chief editor

Review is done according to the established rules.

The article will be accepted for publications in case both reviews are positive.

Results of the contest

Only 15 scientific articles are published in journal. In the journal will be published articles which will have the highest scores.Unpublished articles will take part in the contest in the next publication of the journal, if authors agree. Authors will not need to submit these articles to the editor for next volume. Also, these articles will not need review and they will save the last scores.

For further information contact: mob.+995 599177573; e-mail: info@heraldoflaw.com

Union of Law slcientists and its international scientific journal “Herald of Law” is inviting the legal scholars/researchers, as well as practicing lawyers to join the online scholarly discussion “Problems of Euthanasia in terms of Comparative Criminal Law”. The Event will take place via platform Zoom, on April 21, 2021 at 19 p.m.

Speakers:

• Ketevan Mchedlishvili-Hedrich – (Freiburg, Germany) member of Union of Law scientists and the editorial board of journal published by the Union – “Herald of Law”, Doctor of Law, staff scientist at Institute for Criminology Research of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Professor at University of Georgia.

Ketevan Mchedlishvili-Hedrich was staff scientist at Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law and at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany). The book “Introduction to Medical Criminal Law” by German author, Eric Hilgendorf, was translated into Georgian by Ketevan Mchedlishvili-Hedrich in 2020. Moreover, she is the author of various scholarly works.

• Ana Kapanadze – PhD student at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of Law. Ana Kapanadze is one of the first PhD students working on Medical Criminal Law.
• Tamar Ninoshvili – Head of Quality Department at non-entrepreneurial (non-commercial) legal person “Free Development & Law Center”.

The discussion will take place after the presentations.

The event will be held within the scope of pilot project “Online Scholarly Discussions”.

Recording of the discussion will be available on Youtube, as well as on the web-pages of the Union of Legal Scholars and journal “Herald of Law”.

Persons interested in participating in the discussion may register through registration link below  no later than April 19. After registration you will receive the link to the meeting, which will enable you to attend the discussion.

Agenda

April 19, 2021

Platform Zoom

19 ⁰⁰-19 ⁰⁵  

Opening of the meeting, welcome speech

Zurab Chkonia-  chairman of the Union of Legal Scholars

Presentations:

19 ⁰⁵-19 ²⁰         

Ketevan Mchedlishvili-Hedrich

19 ²⁰-19 ³⁵

Ana Kapanadze

19 ³⁵-19 ⁵⁰

Tamar Ninoshvili

20 ⁰⁵–21 ⁰⁰

Discussion

Closing of the meeting

21 ⁰⁰