# Our Visiting Professors

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### Public lectures by Diplomats

#### Shri Kumar Gaurav

Position — Consul General of India, St. Petersburg
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Major — Master’s Degree in History, Jawaharial Nehru University

#### Resnick Uri Yehoshua

Position — Consul General of the State of Israel, St. Petersburg
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Major — International Relations, Applied Game Theory

#### Eduardo Villegas Megías

Position — Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Mexican States in Russian Federation
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Major — Philosophy, Political management

### Our Visiting Professors 2023-2024

#### Ravinder Rena

PhD in Economics \
Position — Professor of Economics, Faculty of Management Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, Republic of South Africa. \
Major — Development Economics; Economics of Education; Entrepreneurship and Micro Finance; Inclusive growth; BRICS Economy; African Trade and integration; WTO and Globalization; FDIs and World Economy; Sustainable Development; Research Methodology

#### Dan Li

Doctor of Public Administration \
Position: Associate Professor, College of Humanities & Law, Northeastern University \
Major: Public administration, public policy, especially policy of science & technology, policy of culture.

#### Bao Yonghui

Ph. D in Law \
Position: Assistant Professor in Law at Capital Normal University (Beijing, China); Practicing Lawyer of Beijing V&T Law Firm \
Major: Corporate and Financial Law, Chinese Commercial Law, Comparative Law

#### Liu Mingquan

Ph. D in Law \
Position: Visiting Professor \
Major: Environmental Law, Tort Law

#### David Juan Viader Agustí ( David Viader )

Degree in Law \
Position: Practising Lawyer (in the last 28 years) in the Kingdom of Spain, C.E.O. at Law Firm ‘Viader Pravobarna’, Lecturer, Regular speaker in Juridic Events and Seminars periodically held in Russia ( ‘Legal Forum’ — Saint Petersburg International
Forum —, Institute of Advocacy — Saint Petersburg Bar Association —, Saint Petersburg
International Conference of Notaries, Yekaterinburg Euro-Asian Juridic Conference ...) \
Major: Inheritance Law, Family Law, Comparative (Civil and Criminal) Law between Spain and Russia, Criminal Law, Recognition and enforcement of Russian judgements in Spain, Real Estate Law

#### Nematov Jurabek

Position: Associate Professor, Tashkent State University of Law \
Major: Administrative Law

### Our Visiting Professors 2022-2023

#### Wataru Watanabe

Degree — Doktor des Rechts \
Position — Full Professor, Faculty of law, Meijo University (Nagoya, Japan) \
Major — Constitutional law, Administrative law, Local autonomy law

#### Tian Feilong

Degree — Doctor (Public Law) \
Position — Visiting Professor \
Major — Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Political Theory

#### Peng Haiqing

Degree — Doctor \
Position — Professor of Law School of Beijing Institute of Technology \
Major — Criminal Procedure Law, Comparative Law,Evidence Law

#### Zhang Jianwen

Degree — PhD \
Position — Dean of School of International Education, Director of International Cooperation and Exchange Department, Southwest University of Political Science and Law \
Major — Civil and Commercial Law; Comparative Law between China and Russia; Information Law; Data Law

#### Pang Dongmei

Degree — Doctor of Law \
Position — Law School of Henan University \
Major — Criminal law

#### Takahashi, Mitsuhiko A.

Degree — LLM \
Position — Professor, University of Toyama \
Major — Environmental Law

### Our Visiting Professors 2021-2022

#### Emanule Menegatti

Full Professor Department of Sociology and Business Law, University of Bologna \
Position at SPbU — Visiting Professor (Transnational Legal Practice 2021-2022)
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Position — Full Professor of Labour Law and Dean of the School of Economics and Management at the University of Bologna, member of the Board of the PhD program in European Law, Adjunct Professor at Curtin University Law School (Perth, Australia)
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Major — Minimum wage regulation, new forms of work in the gig/sharing/on-demand economy, social action of the European Union

#### Yasuharu Miura

Registered Foreign Attorney in Vietnam \
Position at SPbU — Visiting Professor (“Commercial Law of Japan and Russia” 2021-2022)
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Position — Registered Foreign Attorney in Vietnam; Japan Russia Lawyers Association Expert Board for the bachelor’s programme “Laws (with advanced studies of Japanese language and the law of Japan)” of Saint-Petersburg University; Designated Support Attorney for the JFBA System to Introduce Support Attorneys for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises doing International Business
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Major — General Corporate Legal Affairs / M&A, Corporate Reorganization, and Joint Ventures / Inward Investment / Russia / Vietnam

#### Beryl ter Haar

Doctor in law \
Position at SPbU — Visiting Professor (Transnational Legal Practice 2021–2022)
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Position — UW Professor and director of the Centre for International and European Labour Law Studies (CIELLS) at the University of Warsaw, Poland, and endowed professor on European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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Major — European and international law, and research interest in new forms of (labour) law, especially transnational private regulation, corporate social responsibility, and legal pluralism in labour law

#### Xingmei Zhang

Doctor of Law
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Position — Associate Professor, School of Law, Jilin University
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Major — China’s civil procedure law. Especially civil litigants, civil online litigation

#### Tilman Plath

Doctor of Philosophy and History
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Position at St. Petersburg University — Visiting Professor at the Institute of History and Philosophy
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Position — Researcher at Greifswald University (Department of History)
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Major — The Baltic States during the Second World War, History of Latvia, Russian economic History during the 18th Century

#### Tomohiko Ohno

PhD in Global Environmental Studies (Kyoto University)
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Position — Professor of Environmental Policy, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University
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Position at SPbU — Visiting Professor (Environmental Law of Russia and Japan 2021-2022)
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Major — Environmental policy and governance, Watershed governance, Policy process

#### He Zhipeng

PhD in Law
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Position — Professor at Jilin University (School of Law & Human Rights Center)
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Major — International law, esp. philosophical issues in international law and he Chinese practice of international law; Human rights, esp. philosophical issues in human rights and Chinese thoughts and practices in human rights

#### Lou Yu

PhD in Law
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Position — professor of Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School of China University of Political Science and Law, and the director of the Social Law Institute. (Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School)
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Major — labor law, employment law, social security laws and policies, insurance law

#### Wang Xu

Doctor of Sociology& Journalism
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Position — Postdoctoral researcher & Executive Secretary, Center for Russian Studies, School of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University
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Major — Comparative Study of Chinese and Russian Journalism and Sociology, Country and Regional Studies，Research on the History of Sino-Soviet Cultural and Journalistic Exchanges

#### Mengxing Lu

PhD in Law
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Position — Assistant Professor at China University of Political Science and Law (Civil, Commercial and Economic Law School)
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Major — Chinese environmental law, international and comparative environmental law, environmental law and economics, and corporate environmental responsibility

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