The 3rd International Scientific Conference "Philosophical Understanding of the Historiographic and Prospective Tasks of Modern Public Law"

The 3rd International Scientific Conference "Philosophical Understanding of the Historiographic and Prospective Tasks of Modern Public Law" (October 9, 2026, Yekaterinburg)

 Conference Organizers: Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IPL UB RAS), Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISL RAS), and Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS).

The development of a verified system of historical, legal, and historical-political knowledge creates the foundation for protecting Russia's sovereign civilizational path. Historiography and legal philosophy play a key role in this process, defining the semantic dominants in improving the legal system in accordance with the country's value foundations and strategic priorities in the context of a changing global order. The stability of the legal and legitimacy of the political system, as well as the long-term consolidation of Russian society, directly depend on the strength of this foundation. The goal of the conference is to develop scientifically grounded approaches to updating and strengthening the ideological, value-based, and institutional framework of the Russian state through interdisciplinary dialogue between historians, legal scholars, philosophers, and political scientists. The conference aims to serve as a platform for consolidating the expert community around key principles for the development of national legal and historical scholarship in order to create a coherent, consistent system of knowledge about Russian statehood adequate to contemporary challenges.

The expected outcome of the discussion will be the development of recommendations aimed at harmonizing public administration, legal regulation, and social development strategies with the fundamental values ​​and historical experience of Russian civilization.

The central themes of the conference are:

– Constitutional, legal, and value-based institutional constants: the civilizational code of Russian statehood.

– Doctrinal renewal of modern public law theory: the role of historiographic knowledge.

– Philosophical foundations and historical dynamics of the formation of Russian identity.

– Values ​​as a system-forming factor in the long-term consolidation of Russian society in its historical and civilizational dimensions.

– The civilizational paradigm as a methodological basis for the historiography of political and legal doctrines.

– Historical truth in political and legal discourse and its role in constructing historiographic models.

Following the conference, a collection of papers will be published and subsequently posted in the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI) and Russian Scientific Citation Index (RSCI) systems.

Conference Preparation Schedule

– Applications for participation in the conference and paper texts will be accepted until June 15, 2026, along with a participant registration card.

– September 10, 2026 – Following the review of applications, the Conference Organizing Committee will send out personal invitations to conference participants.

– October 9, 2026 – Conference date.

– November 1, 2026 – peer review of paper texts, editorial preparation, and publication of the conference proceedings.

To participate in the conference, please send an application for participation in the conference as an attached file in Word for Windows (*.doc) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with your registration card no later than June 15, 2026. Paper manuscripts for publication in the conference proceedings, 25,000 to 40,000 characters long with spaces, will be accepted to the same address no later than August 1, 2026.

For an information letter and a sample article format, please visit the official website of the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.