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On September 27th, 2007 New York University School of Law welcomed Alexander Domrin, Senior Councillor for External Relations, Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partnes to give a lecture to an audience of distinguished guests, NYU faculty, international fellows, scholars and students of NYU, amongst others.
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Alexander N. Domrin
Senior Councillor for External Relations at "Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners", the largest Russian law firm.
Alexander Domrin is a graduate (magna cum laude) of the Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) under the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His major fields of study were International Law, Soviet Law, Foreign & Comparative Law, Foreign Affairs & Diplomacy.
In 1990 he joined the professional staff of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations, as its Senior and then Chief Specialist. As a lawyer, he participated in drafting a Bill on Conscientious Objection to Military Service and more than forty Resolutions of the Russian Parliament and its Presidium. He helped prepare about thirty international treaties and agreements for ratification by the Supreme Soviet of Russia, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Agreement on Trade Relations, and the U.S.-Russia Tax Treaty. He also participated in official negotiations between Russia and Estonia (Narva, 1991), Russia and Uzbekistan (Moscow, 1992).
Besides having an advanced academic degree of Candidate of Law (Ph.D. equivalent) from the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law (1992), in 1998 he completed his doctorate program at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and became the first Russian lawyer to be awarded a Doctor of Juridical Science (Scientiae Juridicae Doctoris, S.J.D.) degree in the U.S. In 1991, Alexander Domrin was the first Soviet expert invited for an internship at the U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) (Washington, D.C.). In 1994-96, he was the Moscow Coordinator of the CRS--Russian Federal Assembly Parliamentary Development Program (funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development). In 1998-99 he was a Consultant of the Russian Foundation for Legal Reform coordinating the World Bank--funded Legal Education Development Program (in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg).
Since 1993, Alexander Domrin has taught at major law schools in the U.S.: the New York University School of Law, Cornell Law School, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of Iowa College of Law, Wayne State University Law School, the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, as well as in the Political Science Departments of Villanova University, Wittenberg University and the University of Iowa, in addition to being a Fulbright Research Scholar at Harvard Law School. The courses that he teaches include Public International Law, Introduction to International Law, European Union Law, Constitutional Law of the European Union, National Security Law and Government Powers in Emergencies, U.S. Foreign Relations Law, Human Rights in the World Community, Comparative Law of Foreign Relations, Comparative Law in Post-Communist Countries, Contemporary Russian Law in Historical Context, Russian Constitutional Law, Russian Law and Government, Legal Change After Communism, International Law for Undergraduates, Russian Foreign Policy.
He has been an invited speaker at a number of universities in the U.S. (including Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Iowa, University of Connecticut, University of Maine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University, University of Maryland, University of Vermont, Wittenberg University, Middlebury College) and participated in numerous conferences worldwide (U.S.A., Britain, India, Finland, Italy, Hungary).
Alexander Domrin is the author of over sixty publications (in Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain, Canada, India, and the U.S.), including books The Limits of Russian Democratisation: Emergency Powers and States of Emergency (Routledge: London, New York, 2006); Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries (Forum of Federations: Montreal, 2006; co-authored); Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture (Routledge: London, New York, 2006; co-authored); The Constitutional Mechanism of a State of Emergency (Moscow: Public Science Foundation, 1998); Essays in Constitutional Law of Foreign Countries (Moscow: Spark, 1999; co-authored), Institutions of Constitutional Law of Foreign Countries (Moscow: Gorodets, 2002; co-authored), Constitutional Law of the Countries of Europe: Textbook (Moscow: Wolters Kluwer, 2005; co-authored); Legal Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage in Foreign Countries (Moscow: INION RAN, 2005; co-authored); Emergency Legal Regime in Russia and Abroad (Moscow: Yurlitinform, 2006; co-authored); and reports to the Russian Council for Foreign and Defence Policy (1992, 1995).
He is a member of the Expert Council on Constitutional Legislation under the Chairman of the State Duma (lower chamber of the federal parliament), Working Group on Strategies of Regional Development and Security of the Federation Council (upper chamber of the federal parliament), Editorial Board of Representative Power - 21st Century: Legislation, Commentaries, Problems (a legal periodical of the Russian State Duma), Expert Council of the Institute of Law and Public Policy (Moscow), and of the Hauser Global Law School Faculty of the New York University Law School (New York). In 2004-06 he was selected as a Russian coordinator of a global program "Legislative and Executive Governance in Federal Democracies" under auspices of the Forum of Federations (Canada) and the University of Melbourne Law School.