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Author: Aleksandr Evseev
DOI: 10.21128/1812-7126-2023-5-142-151
Keywords: A.I.Kovler; European Court on Human Rights; anthropology of law; training of lawyers; moral dilemmas of XXI century
This article is dedicated to the 75th birthday of the prominent legal scholar A.I.Kovler, Doctor of Law, Professor, and judge of the European Court of Human Rights from Russia from 1999 to 2012. The author focuses on his own personal impressions of discourse with Kovler, interspersed with an analysis of his key works. Thus, the personal is, as it were, intertwined with the scholarly. Particular attention is paid to Kovler’s inclusion in pan-European scientific discourse, without which his personality would have lost a piece of its charm. The author pays tribute to the professional achievements and broad erudition of the article’s subject. A number of Kovler’s publications went into scholarly circulation and, although somewhat forgotten, have not lost their relevance. With sad bewilderment, the author evaluates the civic position of A.I.Kovler over the last two years. The author also touches on a number of Kovler’s dissenting opinions during his tenure as a judge of the European Court of Human Rights, evaluating their aesthetic and legal merits. Particular attention is paid to the problem of interpreting the history of the twentieth century in international justice, at the origins of which was Kovler himself. Additional attention is focused on his connections with France, which are so visibly seen both in his scientific work and in the course of personal communication with him.
About the author: Aleksandr Evseev – Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D.) in Law, Associate Professor, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.
Citation: Evseev A. (2023) Anatoliy Kovler: kakim ya ego znayu (sub’ektivnye zametki) [Anatoliy Kovler: as I know him (subjective notes)]. Sravnitel’noe konstitutsionnoe obozrenie, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 142–151. (In Russian).
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