MINSK, 19 March (BelTA) – A two-day international conference “History and Law: Heritage, State and Prospects” will kick off at Belarusian State University on 19 March. The event is timed to the 100th anniversary of historian, Doctor of Law, Professor Iosif Yukho. The conference will be held in online and offline formats, BelTA learned from the press service of the university.
The forum will bring together about 100 leading scientists specializing in history and theory of state and law from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. These are representatives of Belarusian State University, Belarusian State Economic University, Kupala State University of Grodno, Polotsk State University, Kutafin Moscow State Law University, Chernyshevsky Saratov State University (Russia), National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, etc.
The conference is structured into sections: “Establishment and development of legal science and education in Belarus. Problems of the history of state and law and political and legal thought of Belarus” and “Theory of state and law and problems of legal sciences: history and modernity”.
A collection of scientific papers is to be published following the conference. The forum is organized by the Faculty of Law of Belarusian State University.
Iosif Yukho (1921 – 2004) was a historian of law, Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of the Faculty of Law of Belarusian State University. In 1949 he graduated from the Minsk Institute of Law, in 1954 he completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR. His Ph.D. thesis explored the establishment of Soviet power in Western Belarus in 1939. In 1980 he defended his doctoral thesis on the social and political system and law of Belarus in the 16th century. In 1963 he developed and started delivering a course of lectures on the history of the state and law of Belarus. He looked into the origins of the names ‘Belarus', ‘Belaya Rus', ‘Litva' and proved that ‘Belarus' as a geographical name of the territory became common not earlier than the second half of the 19th century. He authored over 200 scientific papers. He took part in drafting the Constitution of Belarus in 1994.
