IOE Staff Members Spoke on the Right to Education at International Conference

Szymon Jankiewicz, Director of the Center for Applied Legal Research, and Nadezhda Knyaginina, Analyst of the Center, took part in an International Conference, ‘Development of Russian Law-IX: Russian Law and Globalization’,  held on October 6-7, 2016, at the University of Helsinki.

HSE researchers presented a report on ‘The Role of Affirmative Action in Implementing the Right to Education: the Case of Russia’. In the presentation the authors analyzed the current grounds for student discrimination, summed up the experience of using positive discrimination in Russia and abroad and determined directions for further research.