IV Siberian Legal Forum: State and Law in the Context of Global Constraints

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the new challenges and acknowledging a move to digital formats that the university had been building on throughout the year.
The Forum reunited prominent academicians and practitioners from both the legal and government sectors for a series of eight innovative online legal events to tackle the changing legal landscape in an unprecedented time of COVID-19 pandemic. At that, it focused on the immediate, medium, and long-term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, sharing good practice examples that had targeted at supporting justice system, state authorities, notaries, and the academia in maintaining service provisions during lockdowns as well as at undertaking remarkable innovations as a response to the crisis. Additionally, it intended to provide actionable insights to facilitate researchers, legal experts and stakeholders in addressing the challenges of the pandemic constraints.
The program featured keynote panel discussions embracing: -The scope of human rights limitations in Russia and Kazakhstan in the context of the pandemic: theoretical and international aspects; -Challenges to civil, administrative justice and notaries in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic; - The plenary session was completed by E.R. Gomes, PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor of the Political Science Department, Coordinator of the Research Center for the Study of BRICS Countries, Fluminense Federal University (Niteroi, Brazil), who gave the benefit of his research outcomes on the topic "Brazil and the COVID-19: Presidential Denial and Society's Voices." The present overview is meant to provide a summary of the roundtable and panel discussions of the IV Siberian Legal Forum structured by following the order of the Forums' program.

Summary of the Roundtable Discussion "The Scope of Human Rights Limitations in Russia and Kazakhstan in the Context of the Pandemic: Theoretical and International Aspects"
International roundtable discussion "The Scope of Human Rights Limitations in Russia and Kazakhstan in the Context of the Pandemic: Theoretical and International Aspects" organized in collaboration with L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (Nur-Sultan, Republic of Kazakhstan) brought together researchers from the Russian Federation, the United States of America, and the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In line with the rhetoric of the IV Siberian Legal Forum, the panel provided a discussion of human rights in terms of their exercising and breaches due to the coronavirus outbreak. Furthermore, the participants drew on compelling examples of national governments' responses, and came up with some recommendations to respect human rights in responses to the challenges. In particular, Zh.I. Ibragimov The coronavirus pandemic has hindered the judicial systems' functioning hard. In the face of challenges, states across the globe adopt emergency measures to address the crisis, and importantly must continue to uphold the rule of law, protect and respect basic principles of legality, and the rights to get access to justice and due process. In this rhetoric, a diverse and representative panel of experts, practitioners and other participants of the panel "Challenges to Civil, Administrative Justice and Notaries in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic" explored, compared and enjoyed standpoints' exchange on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on judicial system and access to justice. Furthermore, it analyzed a number of positive effects of this new reality and the challenges it raises for the administration of justice.
The panel moderator -D.Iu. Maleshin, JD, Professor, an expert in a variety of legal fields embracing civil procedure, judicial power, enforcement proceedings, notaries, and legal education -skillfully navigated the conversation, posed carefully constructed questions and inspired a vibrant debate.
Initially, the panel focused on the most pressing issues of procedural legislation Contributing to the interesting and engaging panel discussions were the issues to deal with the right to remotely participate in an arbitration court session, directions to improve civil procedure and administrative proceedings in the context of IT and artificial intelligence's development as well as judicial act and some issues of offsetting counter obligations and collective judicial protection of citizens in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The themes were debated respectively by E.

Summary of the Panel Discussion "Government Regulations in the Context of Global Crises"
International panel discussion "Government Regulations in the Context of Global Crises" facilitated by Elena Gladun, PhD, Professor, the Editor-in-Chief of the BRICS Law Journal was one of the most successful in terms of international collaboration provided by Russian participants (from the University of Tyumen, the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), Moscow State University, South Ural State University, Ural Federal University and Ural Federal Economic University) and the largest partaking of international researchers from Brazil, Argentina, India and South Africa. The panel geared to establish an overview of state and public authorities' primary activities to sort out crucial challenges and repercussions provoked by the pandemic times and highlight the ways and means the governments take to settle the problems of economic management and crypt currency utilization, develop e-Governments, integrate social networks in public administration, improve the investment climate and protect the citizens' rights to employment and wages during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The keynote speakers took the lead in discussions of topical issues. In particular, O.V. Aliyeva, PhD, Head of the Public Administration Department, University of Tyumen gave a brief but thoughtful overview on the state guarantees of human rights in the crisis period; I.P. Klimov, JD, Professor of the Theory of State and Law and International Law Department, University of Tyumen addressed the audience next, and spoke about Russian national policy of organizing transportation in the pandemic. The third keynote address "Digital Economy and Law: Russian The goal of the panel discussion was to consider a set of innovation mechanisms regulating economic activities as a tool to boost economic development of the Eurasian Economic Union member states. Additionally, to analyze a spectrum of concerns comprising the business and state bodies' interaction issues, the means to ensure competitiveness of Russian goods and services in the international arena and to examine how well the legal institutions function during the recovery period.
Organized by the Customs Department of the Institute of State and Law the panel was moderated by T.V. Luzina, PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Customs Department, Institute of State and Law, Tyumen State University and brought together the academia and practitioners from across the regions of Russia and Kazakhstan.
Importantly, the panel discussion centered around the current stage of economic activities and their customs administration in the Russian Federation alongside with interaction perspectives in the field during the recovery period. Moreover, it focused on the implementation of measures to ensure economic security by customs authorities against the backdrop of new challenges and debated the fulfillment of the EAEU's integration potential to induce mutual trade amid global instability alongside with new practices of migrant workers' recruitment in the context of business recovery. Notably, most of the abovementioned issues mirrored the outcomes of the Customs Department staff's research and tangibly benefited the event productivity.
Furthermore, the panelists acknowledged that the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound effect on labor relations and the organization of across sectors. The necessity to shift to remote working came as a surprise to many and turned out to be quite a challenge because of under regulating. The majority of companies had to carry out some measures in order to adjust to the new circumstances. In this regard, the presentation "Contracts with Teleworkers under the International Labor Organization and the European Union Legislation" by K.V. Lapshin, Director of the Legal Department of Fashion House Management Eastern Europe Group, Adjunct PhD student, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) was the matter of the panel's specific deliberations.
Based on his research experience, Professor M.A. Sarsembaev, JD, Chief Researcher of the International Law Department, the Institute of Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan) analyzed the essence matter and some critical issues of public-private partnership in transport engineering industry in Kazakhstan as an integral part of interaction in foreign economic activity within the recovery period.

Summary of the Panel Discussion "Social and Labor Relations in the Pandemic"
The goal of online panel discussion "Social and Labor Relations in the Pandemic," held under the scope of the IV Siberian Legal Forum was to share, learn and discuss the challenges of labor and social security law evolvement. The discussion united academics, researchers and practitioners from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Munich, Minsk, Bishkek, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and Omsk to explore issues faced by the field and visualize the future direction. G.S. Skachkova, JD, Professor, Head of the Labor Law and Social Security Law Sector, Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences was the first speaker to take the floor and provided an interesting and meaningful insight into the freedom of labor principle's implementation during the pandemic.
The next highlight was the thematic area of social and labor rights' implementation in the pandemic. It was brightly launched and abundantly deliberated in the paper Another thematic area to debate was the rise of cybercrimes. The participants explored the scope of the global cybercrime threat; expounded global developments in cybercrime cases and efforts made to boost international cooperation on cybercrime, elucidated the perspectives of global cyber norms' development and deliberated the rate of law enforcement actions taken against cybercriminals in the face of this persistent threat. Specifically, the discussion focused on the qualification of common crimes committed in the Internet, analyzed in depth and persuasively presented by R. In the resultant discussion, the panel enjoyed the standpoints and experience exchange on multiple issues associated with constraints, stipulated by the COVID-19. Notably, the papers of the Constitutional and Municipal Law Department's staff, Institute of State and Law, Tyumen State University contributed much to the content and success of the discussion. In particular, O.A. Teplyakova, PhD, Associate Professor dwelled upon the right to education under the pandemic. D.O. Teplyakov, PhD, Associate Professor conceptualized the interaction forms of regional governments in Russia to prevent and cut the risk of coronavirus infection spread. D.A. Avdeev, PhD, Associate Professor in his presentation "Challenges of Legitimizing Public Authority in Modern Russia" defined the concept and essential features of "legitimacy, " provided legal analysis of public authorities' activities, explored their legitimization process, their responsibility and accountability. The speaker examined the compliance of the public authorities' performance outcomes with the level of the voters' political will and the rate of popular endorsement. The theme occurred to be thought provoking and inspired a heated debate.
Additionally, A.I. Sakhno, PhD, Associate Professor, Head of the Administrative and Financial Law Department, Institute of State and Law, Tyumen State University set forward the strategy for sanitary and epidemiological safety legislation's development and improvement in Russia.
Interestingly, the paper "The New Legislation on Administrative Liability in Traffic Safety" presented by V.V. Golovko, JD, Professor of the Administrative and Financial Law Department, Institute of State and Law, Tyumen State University was the subject of specific interest and brought to the exchange of ideas and views.
Finalizing, the panelists concluded that though the curtailment of some human rights and freedoms are temporary necessary and absolutely indispensable to cope with the COVID-19 outbreak they are to be carefully limited and constantly monitored to avoid abuses.

Summary of the Panel Discussion "Transformation of the Educational Paradigm in the Context of Global Constraints"
The panel of 15 reputed participants moderated by I.L. Pluzhnik, Professor in Education, Deputy Director for International Affairs, Institute of State and Law, Tyumen State University, aimed to discuss the scope of changes and challenges in the content and context, technologies, methods, and educational support of university students under the pandemic constraints. Additionally, to shed light on the innovative researchbased strategies that boost the learning effect in the context of restrictions, namely, polymodal and multilingual approaches to teaching and learning.
Having admitted tertiary education transformation, the panel viewed the thematic areas thoroughly and from a multidimensional perspective: pedagogical, cultural and legal, and in comparison with international universities' experience (France and the Republic of Belarus).
Z.R. Zhukotskaya, Doctor in Cultural Studies, Professor of BIP-Law Institute, (Mogilev, the Republic of Belarus) in her paper "Transformation of Social and Humanities Knowledge in Higher Education: A Humanistic Paradigm" emphasized that the global pandemic had caused value shift and distinguished education as a professional value. Undoubtedly, it had enhanced the value of computer-mediated communication, multilingual approaches to learning and foregrounded a humanistic component of education.
Equally important for the panel was to canvass the already adjusted and prioritized competencies and values that had come to the fore in the current situation, namely, solidarity, self-directed learning, and care for oneself and others, social-emotional skills, among others. I.L. Pluzhnik, Doctor in Education, Professor of the Institute of State and Law, Tyumen State University shared her insights on cognitive effects in higher education under the pandemic constraints. The speaker emphasized the necessity to reckon in cognitive specifics of contemporary students' academic activity stipulated by the peculiarities of their brains' work. Amid them are clip thinking, fragmented perception, truncated abstract thinking, false effect of quick success, rapid deconcentration of attention, multilingualism, visualization of perception.
Importantly, the staff of the Centre of Foreign Languages and Communication Technologies, Tyumen State University, contributed significantly to the success of the event and extended the debates to the analysis of a systemic approach to the assessment of communication and interpersonal skills competencies based on portfolio, online simulators, international online cross-cultural collaborations (virtual mobility).
Interestingly, the panel discussed the digital language-learning ecosystem's key components (blogging, hypertext environment) and the learning potential of cross-platforms i.e. various educational platforms' integrated utilization alongside with other timely issues. Driven by the outcomes of conducted empirical studies, supported by the participants' personal experience the panelists marked students' high value of hybrid education, lacking the dominance of online learning.
To conclude with the panel designated the scope of theory and practice-based research priorities with digital ecosystem and the educology at the heart, aiming at a profound effect on educational paradigm and the solutions to problems.

Conclusion
In the era of pandemic, economic crises and civil unrest, the IV Siberian Legal forum has become a reference event, an ideal platform for international strategic networking that has encouraged collaboration between legal, state sectors, the businesses and the academia they work alongside to tackle tough COVID-19 challenges and has leveraged the opportunities linked to these challenges.
With its rich discussions from a variety of perspectives, and explorations of the most crucial legal issues and debates, the Forum succeeded in providing a unique reflection on social, economic and legal challenges, which have come to the forefront because of the pandemic, including those relating to the provision of legal service.
Undoubtedly, it has occurred to be the best place to present truly relevant practices, ideas, research outcomes and suggestions aimed at featuring the legal lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how those can be carried forward to facilitate policymakers and other stakeholders to overcome the ramifications of the