ALEXANDER FISHKIN
Executive Director
Born 1954 in Moscow, Russia
EDUCATION
MBA, Moscow Financial Academy, (1977)
LL.B., Moscow State Legal Academy (1982)
LL.M., Fordham University, School of Law
(1992)
ADMISSIONS
Moscow Bar (1982) (admitted in all courts
in the former USSR)
New York State Bar (1992)
US District Court for the Southern
District of New York (2000)
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Criminal defense attorney in Moscow
1982-1988
Debevoise and Plimpton, New York,
1989-1993. Special consultant on Russian law
issues (specifically including issues of
organization of judicial system in Russia
and fundamentals of Russian judicial system
management)
Fishkin and Reid, Partner since 1993.
LAW
PRACTICE FOCUS
International law, Russian-American legal
issues, academic research of Russian-
Anglo-American comparative law, Russian
criminal law, Consulting and expert analysis
of Russian laws, political and economic
development, and judicial reform.
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILIATIONS
American Russian Law Institute: Member of
the Board of Director (1997, Executive
Director (2001)
Advisor to the Academy of Jurisprudence
of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian
Federation, the academic and legislative
drafting body of the Russian Ministry of
Justice.
Advisor to the Academy of Justice of the
Supreme Court of Russia
Member of the Board of Advisors of the
Sakharov University (Universite Libre
Russe A. Sakharov) (1998)
Member of International Section of the
American Bar Association
Member of the New York City Bar
Association
ACADEMICS,
PUBLICATIONS
and LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING
Author of a number of articles on US law
in the Russian legal magazine "Russian
Justice", 1993.
Co-authored (with the Russian Legal
Academy and University of Pittsburgh Law
School) Trade and Commercial Laws of the
Russian Federation. Official Codification
and Commentaries (© 1993-1995 Oceana
Publications, Inc. ISBN 0379-101831). The
"Official Codification" was the
first official English language reference
source on new (post-perestroyka) Russian
laws, used by the US Courts, British Courts
and international public institutions.
Author of a numerous articles on
US-Russian legal issues in The Russian
Justice, an official magazine of the
Ministry of Justice of the Russian
Federation.
Author and Editor of The Russian
Perspective, an English language
professional publication on Russian law,
judicial system, economy and politics
published by Oceana Publications Inc.
(1993-1994),
Participated in the drafting of the new
Russian banking legislation. (1994) for the
Ministry of Justice of Russia.
Assisted in evaluating and editing a
draft of the "Foreign Money
Laundering Deterrence and Anticorruption
Act." (H.R. 2896.) (1999)
Participated in drafting portions of an
anti-money laundering bill for the Russian
Parliament (Duma) (2001)
PUBLIC
SPEAKING AND MEDIA
Appeared as legal expert in the media
including the Voice of America, Radio
Liberty/Radio Free Europe, ORTV (Russian
National TV Network), NTV-Moscow and others.
Speaker at various international law
seminars
AWARDS
AND RECOGNITIONS
Doctor of Laws of Russia Honorary Degree
by the Academy of Jurisprudence of the
Ministry of Justice of the Russian
Federation "in recognition of
exemplary scholarship and supreme
contribution towards world justice and
democracy."
LANGUAGES
French, English, Italian,
Russian and other Slavic languages
