Dmitry Maleshin is a Russian lawyer, scholar and author in the field of civil procedural law, legal education. He has authored more than 80 peer reviewed articles,^[1] as well as contributing to a number of text books and other works.^[2] He is currently professor at Moscow State University^[3] and a Visiting Professor at Saint-Petersburg University^[4] and Higher School of Economics.^[5]

Education, teaching and advisory work

Maleshin received his degrees from Moscow State University in 1999 (Equivalent of J.D)), 2002 (Equivalent of Ph.D), 2011 (Doctor of Law). He is a professor of civil procedural law at Moscow State University.^[6] He has also taught and scholared at a number of universities including:

• Higher School of Economics, Professor of civil procedural law since 2014:^[7]
• Moscow State University, Vice-Dean of Law Faculty in 2003-2013;
• Tyumen State University, Advisor of the Law Faculty since 2014;
• Harvard Law School, Visiting Scholar in 2008;
• Yale Law School, Visiting Scholar in 2004.

In 2013 Maleshin participated in the Dean's elections at the Law Faculty of Moscow State University and got a majority vote, but the elections were declared invalid.^[8] That fact was highly illuminated by Russian mass-media: Kommersant,^[9] TVrain,^[10] and Izvestia.^[11]

Academic journals

He is the editor-in-chief of the

• Russian Law Journal^[12]
• BRICS Law Journal^[13]

Member of the editorial boards of the following academic journals:

• Civil Procedure Review^[14]
• Herald of Civil Procedure^[15]
• University of Bologna Law Review (general student-edited law journal)^[16]

Membership

He has served as a member on a wide variety of international and Russian working groups, committees and association including:

• International Association of Procedural Law, member of the Council since 2007:^[17]
• International Law Association, member of the International Civil Litigation Committee, 2006-2012:^[18]
• International Association of Judicial Independence and World Peace, member since 2013.^[19]
• Academic Council of the Moscow State University Law Faculty^[20] since 2003
• Russian Association of Legal Education, member of the Council since 2008^[21]
• Association of lawyers of Russia, Executive of the Moscow regional office in 2008-2012

International projects

Selected international events organised by Dmitry Maleshin:

• First Siberian Legal Forum, "Specialisation of Judges and Courts" Tyumen city, October 17–18, 2014
• Second Siberian Legal Forum, "Administrative Justice: Comparative and Russian Contexts” Tyumen city, September 29–30, 2016^[22]

Participated in the following international research projects:

• Funding and Costs in Civil Litigation, organised by University of Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies^[23]

Selected publications

• Editorial. Civil Procedure in Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Eurasia Context^[24][25]
• Russian Style of Civil Procedure^[26]
• Some Cultural Characteristics of the New Russian Code of Civil Procedure of 2002 ^[27]
• The Crisis of Russian Legal Education in Comparative Perspective ^[28]
• Civil Procedure in Russia, Third edition ^[29]