In Memoriam. Сборник воспоминаний, статей, иных материалов. Сергей Лебедев

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      Профессор Сергей Николаевич Лебедев, как и все великие учителя истории права, был неутомимым распространителем знаний, посеявшим на почву этой науки множество семян. Он глубоко осознавал значение наследия прошлого для настоящего, без которого нельзя проложить путь к будущему. Выражаясь словами английского историка права Ф.У. Мейтланда, «сегодня мы изучаем то, что было позавчера, для того, чтобы вчерашние события не парализовали нас сегодня, а сегодняшние – завтра». Зачастую мимоходом и всегда в форме вопросов, неизбежно приводящих собеседников в изумление, профессор Лебедев упоминал какое-либо малоизвестное событие, книгу или человека, которые оказывались недостающим звеном в той или иной головоломке обширной юридической истории.

      В течение нашей 35-летней дружбы он не раз изумлял и меня, ссылаясь то на детали проекта закона об арбитраже Временного правительства России (1917) или арбитражного разбирательства по делу «Лена Голдфилдс» (1930), то на влияние лондонского арбитража на создание Морской арбитражной комиссии СССР (1930) или раннюю историю Международного совета по коммерческому арбитражу (1961).

      Такие его «вопрошающие» ссылки, требовавшие нахождения ответа, заставляли его учеников и последователей в свою очередь заботливо взращивать посеянные им семена знаний.

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      Hans Danelius. Sergei Lebedev: In Memoriam

      Professor Sergei Nikolaevich Lebedev, born in 1934, was for a long time a well-known personality in the Swedish arbitration community. He had actively participated in the preparations of the Agreement of 1977 between the USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the American Arbitration Association which recommended that disputes between Soviet and US companies should be referred for arbitration under the aegis of the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC). This agreement gradually and significantly contributed to making the SCC a frequently used forum not only for arbitrations in Soviet-US commercial disputes but also for East-West arbitrations in general. Sergei’s involvement in the work on the 1977 Agreement achieved wide recognition and appreciation. It was therefore not surprising that he was frequently asked to serve as an arbitrator in cases regarding business transactions between Russian and Western companies.

      I first met Sergei in 1995 when we both served as arbitrators in a case involving one Swedish company and two Russian companies. The case was dealt with by the SCC. Sergei had been appointed arbitrator by the Russian parties and a Swedish lawyer had been appointed by the Swedish party. On the basis of the SCC Arbitration Rules, the Governing Board of the SCC had appointed me as chairman of the arbitral tribunal. During the following years Sergei and I repeatedly sat together as arbitrators in various cases regarding disputes between Russian and Western parties, the last time in a case in which the proceedings lasted for several years and ended in 2011.

      Since the cases in which Sergei was involved as arbitrator often concerned business transactions involving Russian companies, it was a clear advantage for the non-Russian members of the tribunals to have through Sergei easy access to reliable information about Russian commercial law and business practices. But it was no less important for the smooth running of the proceedings that Sergei’s personal qualities and, not least, his subtle sense of humour facilitated the deliberations and mostly made it possible to reach a unanimous opinion on the legal issues and on the elements on which the awards should be based.

      At the personal level, I came to regard Sergei as a good friend. I was invited by him and his wife Asya to their dacha south of Moscow, and my wife and I also enjoyed having them both as dinner guests at our home in Stockholm.

      The services that Sergei rendered to the Swedish arbitration community received a well-deserved recognition when in 2003 СКАЧАТЬ