N. 8 – 2009 – Musin-CV

 

Valeriy Abramovich Musin

 

 

Position

 

Head of the Civil Procedure Department of the Faculty of Law, St.Petersburg State University, Director of the St.Petersburg branch of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Science, Senior Partner of the Russian-British law firm “Musin and Partners” associated with “Clyde & Co” of London

 

Date of birth: 28 March 1939. Nationality: Russian. Qualifications: Professor of civil law, civil procedure and international private law, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Language: Russian (native), English (fluent).

 

Areas of Expertise

 

Russian civil law, Russian civil procedure, international private law, legal environment for foreign investments in Russia, maritime law, foreign trade contracts, international commercial arbitration.

 

Experience, background

 

Professor Musin has been teaching civil law and legal issues of foreign trade of over 40 years. He has also been invited as visiting Professor to Stetson University College of Law (St.Petersburg, Florida, USA, 1990) to Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University, (Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1992, 1993 and 1998), also to Haas School of Business, University of Berkeley, (California, USA – 1996) to the University of Tromsø (Norway – 2006), and the Hague Academy of International Law (2009).

As Senior Partner of the Russian –British law firm “Musin and Partners” he has experience of rendering legal services to major international projects in St.Petersburg, Russia, including those having the involvement of EBRD and OPIC.

He is a frequent lecturer to legal practitioners and businessmen both in Russia and abroad on the legal environment for foreign investments in Russia.

He is the author of numerous publications on various aspects of civil law, civil procedure, international private law, foreign trade and maritime law, international commercial arbitration.

Professor Musin is an arbitrator of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

He is the Chairman of the Arbitration Court at the St.Petersburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

He is a member of Scientific Council at the Supreme State Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation and of the Scientific Council  at the Federal State Arbitration Court of the North-Western Circuit.

He was one of the drafters of the Merchant Shipping Code of the Russian Federation which incepted 1st May 1999. He also took an active part in drafting of the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation 2002.