KIAP Associate Evgeny Vasin spoke at the Summer Masters’ School 2020

 KIAP Associate Evgeny Vasin spoke at the Summer  Masters’ School 2020

On August 27-28, 2020, the Masters’ School of the Law Faculty of Lomonosov  Moscow State University (MSU). This year the event was held online, lectures were held via  Zoom platform. KIAP, Attorneys at Law, traditionally acted as a partner of the event.

The remote format of the Summer Masters’ School this year did not prevent to gather once again a unique panel of speakers, uniting teachers of law schools and students, consultants and in-houses, masters and students. The Summer School program covered two intense lecture days, during which the lecturers discussed with the participants relevant topics for future lawyers: how to build a career in a law firm, what are the expectations of senior lawyers fr om junior team members, wh ere is it worth going - consulting or in-house, how the best legal departments look like, what role does the legal department play in organizing the holding's work in a pandemic. They also talked about the future of corporations - about the impact of technology, innovation, industrial changes, why the rule of law is beneficial, about the institution of unjustified enrichment and the codification system of civil law, and other interesting topics.

Evgeny Vasin, Associate of KIAP, Attorneys at Law, spoke among the lecturers on the hot topic "Artificial Intelligence and Personal Data". Evgeny told the participants about the specifics of the use and regulation of artificial intelligence in Russia, the related problems of the use and protection of personal data, as well as about the current and future "regulatory sandboxes" in the field of high technologies.

The speakers of the event were also representatives of large Russian and international companies, including Gazprombank, Sibur, Metafrax Group, and Metadynea; educational institutions, platforms, and associations: University of Cambridge, Law School "M-Logos", Russian School of Private Law (Institute) and Moscow School for the Social and Economic Sciences; as well as law firms and attorneys at law: FBK Legal, Lidings, Osborne Clarke LLP, ALRUD, Tomashevskay & Partners and Law office Bartolius.