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Editorial Board |
KOLOSOV YURY MIKHAILOVICH
1959 – graduate of Moscow State Institute of International Relations
1959-1963 – Legal advisor, Foreign relations department, USSR Ministry of Civil Aviation
1963 – 1966 – post-graduate course at Moscow State Institute of International Relations
1966 – LL.D. degree
1966-1970 – diplomatic service, USSR Ministry for Foreign Affairs
1970-1973 – senior researcher, State and Law Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1973-1987 – diplomatic service, Legal and Treaty Department, Department of Humanitarian and Cultural Affairs, USSR Ministry for Foreign Affairs
1987 – to-date – Holder of the Chair of International Law, Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations
1976 – Ph.D. degree
1982 – Professor of International Law
1995 – Award “Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation”
1996 – diplomatic rank – Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Social Activities:
Member, Committee on the Rights of the Child (1991-1999)
Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague (since 1990)
Member, International Academy of Astronautics (since 1985)
Member, International Institute of Space Law (since 1980)
Member, Executive Board, Russian Association of International Law (since 1988)
Editor-in-Chief, “Moscow Journal of International Law (since 1991)
Member, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (since 2002)
Participation in international events:
Lecturing on different issues of international law in universities of Montreal, Vienna, Thessaloniki, Milano, Florence, Ghent, etc.
Member of Soviet (Russian) delegations in various organs at several sessions of the UN General Assembly, the UN Commission on Human Rights, the Geneva meeting of the CSCE, the Vienna meeting of the CSCE, UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Legal Sub-Committee, UNESCO meetings, diplomatic conferences adopting the Hague and Montreal conventions against unlawful interference into civil aviation, establishment of INMARSAT, Joint Consultative Group on the Reduction of Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, etc.
Academic activities:
Author of more than 200 publications dealing with international cooperation in the field of human rights, law of treaties, outer space law, air law, law of international organizations, humanitarian law, international responsibility, etc.
Consultant of more than 20 post-graduates, including foreigners, on writing L.L.D. thesis.
Principal publications:
“Responsibility in International Law”, Moscow, 1975 (also published in Slavonic in Bratislava)
“Working towards Peaceful Outer Space”, Moscow, 1968
“International Space Law”, New-York, 1984 (co-authorship G. Zhukov)
“Mass Media and International Law”, Moscow, 1974 (also published in German in Leipzig)
“International Law”, Text-book, Moscow, 1994 (author of several chapters and co-editor-in-chief); 1998 – 2-nd edition, amended and revised
“The USSR and International Co-operation in the Sphere of Human Rights”, Moscow, 1989 (Documents and materials with commentary; co-editor)
“International Co-operation in the Sphere of Human Rights”, Moscow, 1993 (Documents and materials with commentary; co-editor)
“International Law in Contemporary World”, Moscow, 1991 (co-author and editor)
“International Humanitarian Law”, Moscow, 1995 (Documents with commentary; co-editor)
“International Law in Action”, Vol. I-III, Moscow, 1996-97, (Documents with commentary; co-editor)
“International Law”, Text-book, Moscow, 2000, (author of several chapters and co-editor-in-chief).
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