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From October 25 to January 9, the Legal information reading room (room 207b) will host the exhibition "Dedicated to the first female Doctor of Law in Belarus: on the 95th anniversary of the birth of Izabella Ivanovna Martinovich".
The exhibition includes the following thematic sections:
- Bibliography of Professor I.I. Martinovich's publications:
- co-authorship monographs and publications;
- textbooks, study aid, and training aids.
- journal articles;
- articles in collections of scientific papers, reports, and conference theses.
- Materials on the biography and literary heritage of I.I. Martinovich.
The exhibition is intended for a wide range of readers interested in the life and activities of representatives of Russian legal science.
Izabella Ivanovna Martinovich occupies a special place among the pleiades of well-known Belarusian legal scholars. This is the first woman in Belarus to be awarded the academic degree of Doctor of Law, the academic title of professor.
Izabella Ivanovna was born on October 27, 1927 in Bogushevsk, Vitebsk region, in the family of a military man. In 1945, after she had finished school with a gold medal, the girl entered the Minsk Law Institute without entrance exams, and when she graduated from it in 1949 with honors, she entered graduate study. In 1954, she successfully defended her candidate’s thesis "The principle of disclosure in the Soviet criminal proceedings", and in 1969 – her PhD thesis "Development of the court and criminal procedure forms of judicial activity in the Belorussian SSR". When research paper was defended, numerous publications of the professor had appeared, which made on the basis of the analysis of legislation, and the practice of its application. These publications have not lost their relevance at the present time.
She has justified the idea of creating a juvenile justice system in Belarus and proposed a model for its organization. She also developed proposals for modernizing the organizational forms of advocacy, unifying and harmonizing the legislation on the judicial system of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. She has been a member of the Permanent Court of the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague for ten years. She participated in the preparation of the Belarus’ 1994 draft Constitution and the Belarus’ Judicial and Legal Reform Concept as an expert developer.
Izabella Ivanovna devoted a lot of time and effort to the training of lawyers at the Belarusian State University Law Faculty: in the lecture hall, during the management of research paper, and in the Theses defense council. The professor promoted a love of scientific activity to many for her students while working on their theses, which later resulted in their defense of dissertation research. Izabella Ivanovna published about 180 scientific papers, including nine monographs, was a co-author of textbooks and scientific and practical comments. She has trained four candidates and one PhD in law. For her achievements in scientific and pedagogical activity, she was awarded the titles of Belarus’ Honored Lawyer, BSSR’ higher school Honored Worker and Belarusian State University’ Honored Worker. Professor I.I. Martinovich was awarded a Merit Certificate of the BSSR Supreme council, she is a laureate of the V.I. Pichet’s prize and the highest legal award "Themis".
February 16, 2021 Izabella Ivanovna passed away. Science has lost a brilliant scientist who had a fine legal intuition and the broadest legal erudition.
The exhibition, dedicated to the first female PhD in law in Belarus, contains about 60 documents: books, periodical publications, theses abstract in Russian and Belarusian.
The exhibition's opening hours correspond to the library's opening hours.
Admission is by using a reader's ticket or a social and cultural center ticket.
Phone number for inquiries: (8 017) 293 27 28.
The material is provided by the Official Documents Service department.
