Roman Yankovskiy
- Center Director:Faculty of Law / Centre of Law Education Transformation
- Programme Scientific Supervisor:IT-lawyer
- Roman Yankovskiy has been at HSE University since 2020.
Responsibilities
I supervise the LegalTech master's program.
As the head of the Center for the Transformation of Legal Education, I am involved in
- Launching and supporting new disciplines within the LegalTech educational programs;
- Formalization and scaling of best practices within the educational programs;
- Development and compilation of new manuals, guides and other artifacts for the teaching of law;
- The Legal Literacy Project and the legal literacy assessment system.
Education and Degrees
- 2018
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Civil law, entrepreneurial law, family law, international private law
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Thesis Title: Regulation of Venture Capital Investment - 2010
Degree in Law
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Professional biography
Until 2020 I worked at the Faculty of Law of Moscow State University. I taught business law, as well as my own courses in legal writing and legal regulation of innovation activities, and supervised number of projects at the departmental and faculty level. Together with A.E. Molotnikov, I developed and produced MSU's online course "Legal Support for Startups," which was repeatedly ranked among the top three most popular courses at Moscow State University and received the EdCrunch Award in 2016. My work has been the subject of numerous awards at the faculty and university levels.
While working at MSU, I also taught at MIPT, Plekhanov Russian Business University, and other universities and private educational institutions. I wrote numerous articles and two monographs, Startup Law (on legal issues in the IT business) and The Highrise Number One (on the history, architecture and structure of the Moscow State University main building).
I am also a practicing IT and intellectual property lawyer. Since 2019, I was recommended by Best Lawyers as one of the leading Russian specialists in the field of technology regulation. In 2020, I entered the top ten Russian experts in the digital economy and became one of the winners of the Runet Award in the category "Digital Lawyer of the Year". In 2021, the Pravo.ru-300 rating recognized me for TMT (telecommunications, media, technology).
Awards and Accomplishments
Winner of the HSE University Best Russian Research Paper Competition – 2021
Runet Award as "Digital Lawyer of the Year", nomination "For Contribution to Legal Science" (2020)
Moscow University personal scholarship for young teachers and researchers achieved significant results in teaching and research (2020)
Winner of the EdCrunch MOOC Award in the legal category (2019)
Winner of the EdCrunch MOOC Award in the "Technological Entrepreneurship" category (together with A.E. Molotnikov) (2016)
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Courses (2023/2024)
- Project Seminar "Legal Design" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2022/2023)
- Financial and Investment Platforms (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Financial and Investment Platforms (Mago-Lego; 3 module)Rus
- Legal Writing (Mago-Lego; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Legal Writing (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 2 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Legal Writing" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 3 module)Rus
- Workshop "Legal Writing" (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Introduction to Law (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences; 1 year, 4 module)Eng
Legal letter (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; field of study "40.04.01. Юриспруденция", field of study "40.04.01. Юриспруденция"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
- Project Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Law; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Employment history
Work in Education
2022 - present: NES, visiting lecturer (Master's program "Finance, Investments, Banks" (MAF), HSE/NES Programme in Economics).
2020 - 2024: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law.
2020 - 2023: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law, Deputy Dean for Development.
2020: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Advisor to the Rector on Legal Education.
2018 - 2022: MIPT, visiting lecturer (Master's program "Technological Entrepreneurship").
2016 - 2017: Plekhanov Russian Economic University, visiting lecturer (undergraduate program "Capitans of Business").
2013 - 2020: Faculty of Law, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Assistant Professor at the Department of Business Law.
Law practice
2019 - present: Tomashevskaya & Partners, partner in the IP & IT practice.
2016 - 2019: Zartsyn, Yankovsky & Partners, partner.
2014 - 2016: legal advice for commercial and non-commercial organizations.
Artificial Case: ChatGPT Helps HSE Lawyer Write Article for Academic Journal
Roman Yankovskiy, head of the Centre for Legal Education Transformation at the HSE Faculty of Law, academic supervisor of the Digital Lawyer programme, has written an article in a legal journal using ChatGPT. The experiment was agreed upon with the journal’s editorial board. The author explains why we need such an experience, whether artificial intelligence (AI) is up to the task, and whether we can prohibit its use in scientific work.