SIYUAN JIANG

Despite the world’s unprecedented changes in the last century and the global pandemic, cooperation in education within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) remains of strategic importance. The establishment of the Association of Law Universities of SCO (hereinafter, the Association) promotes the formation of a community with unified destiny within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It will ensure the rule of law for regional economic cooperation and create an international team of legal professionals. The following three principles should be observed in further development of the Association: university-led multilateral cooperation; joint discussion and co-building, pragmatic business cooperation; focus on education, mutual benefit, and reciprocity. At the same time, it is necessary to use several specific mechanisms, including joint training, multi-subject participation, joint research, publication of academic results, implementing the Association’s activities, servicing the regional development strategy, and promoting the research on legal education within the framework of the SCO.

The process of integrating the Chinese initiative ‘One Belt, One Road’ and the EEU development concept has entered a new stage - the transition from project cooperation to systematization. The creation of an inter-regional mechanism for the settlement of commercial disputes is an urgent need to resolve disagreements in the field of trade, as well as an important guarantee of the further development of trade and economic cooperation and coordinated interaction of countries. The article gives recommendations on the creation of a mechanism for the settlement of commercial disputes within the framework of interfacing the construction of the Eurasian Economic Union and the Silk Road Economic Belt.