MEETING OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COUNCIL UNDER THE CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL

On November 11, 2021, Meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council under the Constitutional Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan was held in a hybrid mode.

Opening the meeting, the Chairman of the Constitutional Council Kairat Mami noted that the next meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council was devoted to important issues. In the Year of the 30th Anniversary of Independence, we would like to once again analyze the role of the Basic Law in the formation and development of modern Kazakhstan’s statehood.

During the meeting, the contribution of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the development of an independent Kazakhstan and civil society was summarized, and issues of the constitutional and legal foundations of the concept and status of a state body were considered.

Members of the Scientific Advisory Council, Doctor of Law Ermek Abdrasulov, Sergey Udartsev and Sholpan Tlepina prepared presentations on the first issue.

One of the monuments of constitutional law of Kazakhstan - the draft Constitution of kazakhs by B. Syrtanov, developed at the beginning of last century, was comprehensively studied in the framework of the Rukhani Zhagyru (Рухани Жаңғыру) Program.

On the second issue, reports were made by the Director of the Research Institute of Public Law of the Caspian University Roman Podoprigora, Head of the Regional Program of the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) for Central Asia Jörg Pudelka and Advisor to the Rector of the Eurasian Law Academy named after D.A. Kunayev, Professor Erkin Duisenov.

The Scientific Advisory Council additionally includes Yerkin Ongarbayev - Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs of the L.N. Gumilyov National University; Marat Bashimov - Director of the Expert Institute for European Law and Human Rights; Dina Baimakhanova - Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University.

The meeting was attended by members of the Constitutional Council, members of the Scientific Advisory Council, representatives of the Chambers of Parliament, the National Bank, the General Prosecutor's Office, the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Justice, Finance and National Economy, the Anti-Corruption Agency, the Institute of Parliamentarism, the Institute of Legislation and Legal Information and higher educational institutions.