Aleksandr Vladimirovich Konovalov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Конова́лов; born 9 June 1968) is a Russian lawyer and statesman serving as the judge of the Constitutional Court of Russia since 2025 and its deputy president since 2026. From May 2008 to January 2020, he served as Minister of Justice.
He has the federal state civilian service ranks of 1st class Active State Councillor of the Russian Federation and Active State Councillor of Justitia of the Russian Federation.
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Early life and education
Konovalov was born 9 June 1968 in Leningrad. From 1986 to 1988, he completed compulsory military service in the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. In 1992, he graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Law. While working at the prosecutor's office, he pursued extramural studies at the Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University, where he received a degree in Eastern Orthodox theology.
In 1999, he defended his Candidate of Sciences thesis titled "Possession and Possessory Protection in Civil Law" at Saint Petersburg State University. In 2019, he earned his Doctor of Sciences degree from the Kutafin Moscow State Law University, having defended his thesis on "Principles of Civil Law: Methodological and Practical Aspects of Research".