Полдников Дмитрий Юрьевич

Education, Degrees and Academic Titles

2017

Doctor of Sciences*
HSE University

2016

Doctor of Sciences* in Theory and History of Law and the State; History of Doctrines about Law and the State
Thesis Title: Origins of General Concept of Contract in Western European Legal Science (12th through 16th centuries)

2013

Associate Professor

2006

Degree
Lomonosov Moscow State University

2005

Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in World History
Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Thesis Title: Contractus and pactum in the doctrine of glossators (12-13 century)

2002

Degree
Lomonosov Moscow State University

* Candidate of Sciences
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

* Doctor of Sciences
A post-doctoral degree called Doctor of Sciences is given to reflect second advanced research qualifications or higher doctorates in ISCED 2011.

Professional Interests

Roman law comparative law contract law history of private law reception of Roman law

Awards and Accomplishments

Best Teacher — 2012–2014
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2011–2012)

Courses (2024/2025)

Introduction to Comparative Law (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
Project Seminar " Academic Laboratory of Master" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 3 module)Rus
Reception as a category of comparative law (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 5 year, 1 module)Rus
Western Legal Systems: The Continental Tradition of Law (Mago-Lego; 2 module)Rus
Western Legal Systems: The Continental Tradition of Law (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Past Courses

Timetable for today

Full timetable

Editorial board membership

2011: Member of the Editorial Board , Journal on European History of Law.

2003: Member of the Editorial Board , Ius antiquum. Древнее право (Ius antiquum).

Conferences

2018
The 3rd Annual Conference of the Central and European Network of Legal Scholars "Legal Identities and Legal Traditions in Central and Eastern Europe" (Рига). Presentation: Piercing the Soviet veil of Russian national identity with comparative studies in truly European legal history
Journées Internationales de la Société d’Histoire du Droit de Bologna (2018) «L’Enseignement du Droit» (Болонья). Presentation: Le renouvellement de l’enseignement du droit civil russe au travers de la méthode comparative entre 1861 et 1917
Международная научная конференция "Право - явление цивилизации и культуры (Жидковские чтения 2018)" (Москва). Presentation: Перспективы изучения общей части договорного права стран континентальной Европы: функциональный или культурный подход?

2017
The 9th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists (Вроцлав). Presentation: Approaches to Law amidst Eclectic Criticism in Post-Socialist Russia
22nd Ius Commune Conference (Утрехт). Presentation: The functional method as the staple of comparative studies of European legal history in the early 21st century?

2016
Forth Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History «Culture, Identity and Legal Instrumentalism» (Гданьск). Presentation: Why generalizing contract law? Debates around key arguments in the 19th century France, Germany and Russia

2015
The British Legal History Conference 2015 (Рединг). Presentation: Magna Carta: Disentangling History from Myth in Russia
The XXIst Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians: Law in Transition (Тель-Авив). Presentation: Roman law, academic debates, and the three transitions of private law in Europe
Colloque international: Du comparatisme au droit comparé (Париж). Presentation: Le Comparatisme, le droit romain, et trois naissances de la science de droit privé en Europe

2014
Third Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History "Traditions and Changes". (Мачерата). Presentation: “Scientification” and Voluntary Reception of Continental Legal Tradition in Russia (ca. 1850 to 1900)
Право и общество: эволюция во взаимодействии (Жидковские чтения-2014) (Москва). Presentation: Развитие доктрины частно-правового договора в ius commune в контексте эволюции западноевропейского общества XII-XVI вв.: вопросы методологии истории права.
XXth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians (Кембридж). Presentation: Transplanting the western legal tradition: the “big bang” of Russian civil law in the mid-nineteenth century.

Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses

for a Candidate of Sciences degree

1
Employee as a Legal Person of Roman Law, 2024

Employment history

2010–present: Assistant Professor in Legal History at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow), Faculty of Law.
2007–2011: Assistant Professor in Roman Law at Russian Academy of Justice (Moscow).
2006–2008: Senior scientific research scholar in History of European private law at Moscow State University 'M.V.Lomonosov', Faculty of Law.

Advanced professional training

2011 - Max Planck Institut for Private International and Comparative Law (Hamburg, Germany): reserach on the Pricnicple of Binding Force of contracts in Western European Legal Tradition.

2012 - Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA, USA): investigation into major patterns of study contract law in the American jurisprudence.

5

Jul

2016

Exchange Students from Nice Visit HSE Faculty of Law

HSE Faculty of Law delivered a course on Jurisprudence for exchange students from the Nice Sophia Antipolis University as part of long-term ties between the universities. This was the first student exchange under the partnership agreement between the two universities. HSE plans to further develop this partnership programme.

Dmitry Poldnikov