• Foreword / Paul Arthur Berkman, Alexander N. Vylegzhanin and Oran R. Young
• Preface / Alexander N. Vylegzhanin
• Treaties (selected provisions)
• Subsidiary means for the determination of rules of international law (selected provisions)
• Relevant laws and other legal acts of Russia (selected provisions)
• Legislative fundamentals of Arctic policies of foreign states and of the European Union (selected provisions).

"This book is the first comprehensive and authoritative translation into English of national and international laws of Russia that relate to the Arctic from the early 19th century to the present, revealing the historical and current context of sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction across nearly half of the north polar region. The Russian original version was coordinated by Igor Sergeyevich Ivanov, former Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation and currently the President of the Russian International Affairs Council.This unique translation complements all legal, geopolitical and governance analyses of the Arctic as a primary source of information, without interpretation or bias."-- Back cover.

• $g Introduction / $r Maryann E. Gashi-Butler
• $t Professor William Butler and the development of the science of international law in Eastern Europe / $r Vladimir G. Butkevich and Olga V. Butkevich
• $t The merits of temperance / $r Jane Henderson
• $t Cold War protagonists / $r Boris Mamlyuk
• $t Aequitas as real law : the sources of the European legal tradition / $r Dmitrii Dozhdev
• $t The constitutional-monarchial tradition in Russian political culture / $r Vladimir A. Tomsinov
• $t The Soviet joint activity contract as a bridge to the future / $r Stephen Lucas
• $t Road map to the future : law reform and legal development in the CIS / $r Alexander Romanov
• $t Towards a code on entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation / $r Vladimir S. Belykh
• $t Piercing the corporate veil of undercapitalized companies : English, Russian, and American cases / $r Alexander Vereshchagin
• $t Apparent authority по-русски / $r Kaj Hober
• $t The maxim rebuc sic stantibus in Russian law / $r Vladimir I. Lafitsky
• $t The development of administrative justice in Ukraine / $r Evgen B. Kubko
• $t International Academy of Comparative Law : development of scientific principles and values / $r Oleksiy V. Kresin
• $t "Men are superior to women" (nan zun nü bei)? : slowly healing the harm of domestic violence in contemporary Chinese law / $r Michael Palmer
• $t International cheque law and Russian legislation : basic categories and regulation of cheque obligations / $r Natalia Iu. Erpyleva
• $t Immunity of the state and of officials thereof in judgments of the International Court of Justice / $r Roman A. Kolodkin
• $t Olynikov v. Russia : European Court of Human Rights on the application of absolute state immunity to a private-law transaction / $r Ekaterina Bykhovskaya.

Twenty-one distinguished international and comparative legal scholars, practitioners, diplomats, judges, and arbitrators from England, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United States contribute essays collected in honour of Professor William Butler, assessing his role in the development of legal doctrine, East/West academic and professional relations, legal translation, and legal scholarship generally. The essays address the origins of the European legal tradition, the constitutional monarchy in Russia, the historical foundations of the joint-activity contract, Russian law reform in court organization, corporate law, and the law of obligations, the rule-of-law State, administrative justice in Ukraine, the International Academy of Comparative Law, issues of domestic violence in China, aspects of international finance law and Russian legislation, and aspects of State immunity in public international law and European human rights law.
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• General provisions
• Right of ownership and other rights to thing
• General part of the law of obligations
• Individual types of obligation
• Inheritance law
• International private law
• Rights to results of intellectual activity and means of individualization.

The Civil Code of the Russian Federation, extensively amended and improved in recent times, has been labelled the "economic constitution" of the transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economy and is the key document for any foreign investor or legal practitioner concerned with Russian law.
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Although Part One of the Civil Code celebrates a decade and a half since its enactment, the final Part Four has been in force for about eighteen months. The "economic constitution" of the Russian Federation required not only some twelve years to be drafted and enacted, but as the keystone legal document in the transition from a socialist Planned Economy to a market-based economic system. The present text contains Parts One, Two, Three, and Four of the Civil Code, as amended. It constitutes the complete Civil Code as contemplated by Russian civil law doctrine. The translation of the Civil Code is based on the official text published in the official gazette and as integrated on the legal data base provided by Consultant Plus.
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The Third Part of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation was adopted by the Russian Parliament on November 26, 2001, to take effect on March 1, 2002. It has two divisions: Inheritance Law and Private International Law. This translation of the Third Part of the Code by Peter B. Maggs includes an introduction by Professor Maggs as well as all amendments to the first two parts of the Code. Some of these amendments are of a purely technical nature, but some include substantive changes. This volume thus complements the first and second parts of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, published in 1997 by M.E. Sharpe.
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• Preface-- Editor's Introduction: On the Civil Code-- Detailed Table of Contents of Civil Code-- PART ONE--
• SECTION I: GENERAL PROVISIONS-- Basic Provisions--
• 1. Civil Legislation--
• 2. Origin of Civil Rights and Duties, and Effectuation and Defence of Civil Rights-- Persons--
• 3. Citizens (Natural Persons)--
• 4. Juridical Persons--
• 5. Participation of Russian Federation, Subjects of the Russian Federation and Municipal Formations in Relations Regulated by Civil Legislation-- Objects of Civil Rights--
• 6. General Provisions--
• 7. Securities--
• 8. Nonmaterial Benefits and the Defence Thereof-- Transactions and Representation--
• 9. Transactions--
• 10. Representation and Power of Attorney-- Periods and Limitations--
• 11. Calculation of Periods--
• 12. Limitations--
• SECTION II: THE RIGHT OF OWNERSHIP AND OTHER RIGHTS TO A THING--
• 13. General Provisions--
• 14. Acquisition of Right of Ownership--
• 15. Termination of Right of Ownership--
• 16. Common Ownership--
• 17. Right of Ownership and Other Rights to Thing in Land--
• 18. Rights of Ownership and Other Rights to Thing in Dwelling Premises--
• 19. Right of Economic Jurisdiction, Right of Operative Management--
• 20. Defence of Right of Ownership and Other Rights to Thing--
• SECTION III: GENERAL PART OF THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS-- General Provisions on Obligations--
• 21. Concept of and Parties to Obligations--
• 22. Performance of Obligations--
• 23. Securing Performance of Obligations--
• 24. Change of Persons in Obligation--
• 25. Responsibility for Violation of Obligations--
• 26. Termination of Obligations-- General Provisions on Contract--
• 27. Concept and Conditions of Contract--
• 28. Conclusion of Contract--
• 29. Change and Dissolution of Contract-- PART TWO--
• SECTION IV: INDIVIDUAL TYPES OF OBLIGATIONS--
• 30. Purchase-Sale--
• 31. Barter--
• 32. Gift--
• 33. Rent and Maintenance of Dependent for Life--
• 34. Lease--
• 35. Hire of Dwelling Premises--
• 36. Uncompensated Use--
• 37. Independent Work--
• 38. Fulfilment of Scientific Research, Experimental Construction Design, and Technological Work--
• 39. Compensated Rendering of Services--
• 40. Carriage--
• 41. Transport Expediting--
• 42. Loan and Credit--
• 43. Financing Under Assignment of Monetary Demand--
• 44. Bank Deposit--
• 45. Bank Account--
• 46. Settlement of Account--
• 47. Keeping--
• 48. Insurance--
• 49. Commission--
• 50. Actions in Another's Interest Without Commission--
• 51. Commission Agency--
• 52. Agency--
• 53. Trust Management of Property--
• 54. Commercial Concession--
• 55. Simple Partnership--
• 56. Public Promise of Reward--
• 57. Public Competition--
• 58. Conducting Games and Betting--
• 59. Obligations as Consequence of Causing Harm--
• 60. Obligations as Consequence of Unfounded Enrichment-- PART THREE--
• SECTION V: INHERITANCE LAW--
• 61. General Provisions on Inheriting--
• 62. Inheriting by Will--
• 63. Inheriting by Operation of Law--
• 64. Acquisition of Inheritance--
• 65. Inheriting of Individual Types of Property--
• SECTION VI: INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE LAW--
• 66. General Provisions--
• 67. Law Subject to Application When Determining Legal Status of Persons--
• 68. Law Subject to Application to Property and Personal Nonproperty Relations-- FEDERAL LAW ON THE INTRODUCTION INTO OPERATION OF PART ONE OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION-- FEDERAL LAW ON THE INTRODUCTION INTO OPERATION OF PART TWO OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION-- FEDERAL LAW ON THE INTRODUCTION INTO OPERATION OF PART THREE OF THE CIVIL CODE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION-- Glossary of Legal Terms-- Index.
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This volume provides a complete and authoritative English translation of Parts I, II, and III of the Russian Civil Code, which entered into force in complete form in March 2002. The Civil Code is the central document of market reforms in Russia, dealing with the law of persons (including companies), ownership, contract in all forms, tort, unjust enrichment, inheritance, and private international law. It has been translated from the Russian by Professor Butler, an acknowledged expert in the field, and benefits from a detailed article-by-article table of contents, a thorough subject-index to the Code, and a Russian-English glossary of civil law terms. An essential tool for any practitioner or student of Russian Law, Civil Code of the Russian Federation will be published alongside a collection of translated Russian Company and Commercial Legislation (0199261520) and the second edition of Professor Butler's acclaimed text on Russian Law (0199254001).
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• The state of Russia
• History and nature of the Constitution
• Overview of the 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation
• Executive power, the President and the government
• The legislature and its formation
• The constitutional role of the courts
• Conclusion.

• 1. Explaining the Beginning of Constitutional Negotiations
• 2. Explaining the Outcomes of Constitutional Negotiations before the fall of the Soviet Union
• 3. Yeltin's Missed Opportunity?
• 4. Constitutional Negotiations within Congressional Institutions after the Fall of the Soviet Union
• 5. Explaining the Breakdown of Constitutional Negotiations.
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The years 1990-93 were a critical period in Russia's political development. This book examines the constitutional bargaining processes in Russia in this period. It provides a systematic explanation of how the outcomes of this bargaining radically reshaped the institutions of the Russian state: removing Russia from constitutional subordination to the Soviet Union in 1990; creating a presidency and a constitutional court in 1991; and, restructuring the relationship between the central state and its component federal units with the passage of three Federal Treaties in 1992. The book is a valuable resource to those interested in Russia and post-communist politics, origins of political institutions, comparative government, democratisation and development studies.
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• Useful information
• The terms of a contract
• Requirements of form
• Formation of contracts
• Consideration
• Factors tending to defeat contractual liability
• Third parties to the contract
• Assignment
• Performance
• Remedies for breach of contract
• Discharge of the contract.

The book explains Russian contract law in a form understandable to lawyers qualified in other countries, especially common law countries. The introduction gives a concise overview of the Russian legal system in general and contract law in particular as well as a brief insight into the history of contract law in Russia. Then the main concepts of Russian contract law are explained, using the conceptual framework of English contract law to make them accessible to someone not familiar with the codified Russian system.The book not only considers the legislation regulating Russian contractual relations but also includes appropriate case law to show how the legislation is interpreted. The focus is on contract law in Russia as it actually operates, rather than merely the legislative texts, so that it will be directly relevant to legal practitioners and others who wish to acquire knowledge of the practical application of an important element of the Russian legal system, as well as those seeking an insight into the realities of codified law in action. The target readership therefore includes legal practitioners who have to deal with Russian law, academics and students with an interest in Russian law, the law of contract and comparative civil law, as well as scholars of comparative legal systems and Russian area studies.
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It is hardly a revelation to say that in the Soviet Union, law served not as the foundation of government but as an instrument of rule, or that the judiciary in that country was highly dependent upon political authority. Yet, experience shows that effective democracies and market economies alike require courts that are independent and trusted. In Courts and Transition in Russia, Solomon and Foglesong analyze the state and operation of the courts in Russia and the in some ways remarkable progress of their reform since the end of Soviet power. Particular attention is paid to the struggles of reformers to develop judicial independence and to extend the jurisdiction of the courts to include constitutional and administrative disputes as well as supervision of pretrial investigations. The authors then outline what can and should be done to make courts in Russia autonomous, powerful, reliable, efficient, accessible and fair. The book draws upon extensive field research in Russia, including the results of a lengthy questionnaire distributed to district court judges throughout Russian Federation. Written in a clear and direct manner, Courts and Transition in Russia should appeal to anyone interested in law, politics, or business in Russia scholars and practitioners alike as well as to students of comparative law, legal transition, and courts in new democracies.
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• Introduction: Sources of positive law and legal practice
• Foundations of criminal law
• The problem of professionalism : judicial staff
• Staff and society
• Policing officialdom
• Procedure and evidence
• Torture
• Resolving a case
• Petrine reforms and the criminal law
• Corporal punishment to 1648
• Corporal punishment, 1649-98
• To the exile system
• Peter I and punishment
• Capital punishment : form and ritual
• Punishing highest crime in the long sixteenth century
• Factions, witchcraft, and heresy
• Riot and rebellion
• Moral economies : spectacles and sacrifice
• Peter the Great and spectacles of suffering
• Conclusion: Russian legal culture.

This is a magisterial new account of the day-to-day practice of Russian criminal justice in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Nancy Kollmann contrasts Russian written law with its pragmatic application by local judges, arguing that this combination of formal law and legal institutions with informal, flexible practice contributed to the country's social and political stability. She also places Russian developments in the broader context of early modern European state-building strategies of governance and legal practice. She compares Russia's rituals of execution to the 'spectacles of suffering' of contemporary European capital punishment and uncovers the dramatic ways in which even the tsar himself, complying with Moscow's ideologies of legitimacy, bent to the moral economy of the crowd in moments of uprising. Throughout, the book assesses how criminal legal practice used violence strategically, administering horrific punishments in some cases and in others accommodating with local communities and popular concepts of justice.
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The 1996 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation replaces the 1960 RSFSR Criminal Code and was adopted by the State Duma on 24 May 1996. It officially entered into force on 1 January 1997. This updated translation contains all amendments up to 1 September 1999. Appended is an index which serves simultaneously as a glossary of the principal terms of Russian criminal law, drawing in part on Butler's earlier translations of the 1958 Fundamental Principles of Criminal Legislation of the USSR and the 1960 RSFSR Criminal Code. The introduction examines criminal law reforms in the Russian Federation, including Russian legal policy toward criminal law. The editor also includes an explanation of how to use the criminal code.
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• Conceptual provisions of a new institutional theory / Anastasia A. Sozinova
• Actual problems of market transformation of the modern Russian economy / Natalia G. Vovchenko and Tatiana V. Epifanova
• Economic and legal foundations of the federative structure of modern Russia's economic system / Elena G. Popkova, Tatiana N. Litvinova, and Alexander S. Natsubidze
• The legal forms of economic relations and their transformation in the modern economic conditions : part one : the anti-crisis laws : problems of financing and development in modern Russia / Viktoria V. Bolgova
• The legal forms of economic relations and their transformation in the modern economic conditions : part two : legal foundations of corporate control over the financial and economic activities of commercial organizations in the modern economic conditions / Evgenia V. Medentseva
• The development of the modern Russian economy under the conditions of crisis and import substitution / Viktoria A. Bondarenko and Natalia V. Demyanchenko
• Russia in the conditions of economic sanctions / Elena A. Kolesnichenko, Yana Y. Radyukova, and Nikolai N. Pakhomov
• New vectors of growth and development of modern Russia's economy / Tatiana L. Bezrukova, Andrey S. Sviridov, and Alexander S. Natsubidze
• A future of Russia in the new economic conditions / Elena Y. Zolochevskaya and Svetlana A. Litvinova
• Institutional foundations of the functioning of modern Russian judicial power / Natalia V. Fedorenko.

Modern societies develop very quickly. However, along with rapid economic growth, comes risk to the economic system. That is why there is a need for study of the institutional base on which modern society is built to enable more effective management and better forecasting for further development. Existing studies and publications on the economic and legal foundations of modern society do not take into account the institutional aspects of its development and thus do not fully reflect its sense and content. This book aims to fill this gap in scientific knowledge.This book views the economic and legal foundations of modern society through the lens of a new institutional theory in relation to Russia. The author focuses on Russia - a unique economic system with a developing market, involved in the processes of international economic globalization and integration. The author analyzes actual problems and perspectives of the development of the modern Russian economy through the prism of a new institutional theory.Institutional theory allows for determination and analyzing foundation of society functioning, and "rules of the game". Without understanding the institutional foundations, consideration of applied issues of development of economy will be fragmentary, as it would be impossible to understand the logic of existing status quo and perspectives of its change in future. This book should fill this gap in modern scientific knowledge.
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• Introduction: Lawlessness in Russia? : rethinking the narratives of law
• Legal consciousness(es) in Russia
• Dealing with damage from home water leaks
• Dealing with auto accidents
• The view from the benches of the justice-of-the-peace courts
• The view from the trenches of the justice-of-the-peace courts
• Conclusion: Rethinking the role of law in Russia.

Everyday Law in Russia challenges the prevailing common wisdom that Russians cannot rely on their law and that Russian courts are hopelessly politicized and corrupt. While acknowledging the persistence of verdicts dictated by the Kremlin in politically charged cases, Kathryn Hendley explores how ordinary Russian citizens experience law. Relying on her own extensive observational research in Russia's new justice-of-the-peace courts as well as her analysis of a series of focus groups, she documents Russians' complicated attitudes regarding law. The same Russian citizen who might shy away from taking a dispute with a state agency or powerful individual to court might be willing to sue her insurance company if it refuses to compensate her for damages following an auto accident. Hendley finds that Russian judges pay close attention to the law in mundane disputes, which account for the vast majority of the cases brought to the Russian courts. Any reluctance on the part of ordinary Russian citizens to use the courts is driven primarily by their fear of the time and cost-measured in both financial and emotional terms-of the judicial process. Like their American counterparts, Russians grow more willing to pursue disputes as the social distance between them and their opponents increases; Russians are loath to sue friends and neighbors, but are less reluctant when it comes to strangers or acquaintances. Hendley concludes that the "rule of law" rubric is ill suited to Russia and other authoritarian polities where law matters most-but not all-of the time.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Federal Theory--
• 3. Soviet 'Federalism'--
• 4. Gorbachev's Federalism Problem--
• 5. The Process of Federal Transition--
• 6. Inter-Governmental Relations Under Yeltsin's New Federalism--
• 7. Federal Effects on Transitions in Russia's Republics--
• 8. The Federal Reforms of Vladimir Putin--
• 9. Conclusion.
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Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area- tudies - the author explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation. Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one that incorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies. This book examines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on very unsteady foundations, often out of the ideological, conceptual and physical rubble of the ancien regime. One of the major goals of this book is, where appropriate, to bring together the insights of comparative law and comparative politics in the study of the development of Russia's attempts to create - as its constitution states in the very first article - a 'Democratic, federal, rule-of-law state'.
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• Part I A self-enforcing model of company law for emerging markets: overview of the self-enforcing model-- the national contexts that shape company law-- alternative approaches to company law-- governance structure and voting rules-- structural constraints on particular company actions-- remedies-- conclusion - self-enforcing law in emerging economies. Appendix: survey of company law in emerging markets. Part II Chapter-by-chapter analysis of the law: concept of a joint stock company under the civil code-- general scope of the company law-- general provisions of the law creation, reorganization, and liquidation of a company-- charter capital - shares and other securities-- issuance of shares and other securities-- dividends-- shareholder register-- the shareholder meeting-- board of directors and executive organ-- acquisition and redemption of shares-- major transactions and control transactions-- transactions involving a conflict of interest-- control over a company's financial-economic activity-- financial accounts and information disclosure-- final provisions. Appendix: model company law-- model charter-- law on joint stock companies-- civil code of the RF (excerpts)-- Supreme Court/Supreme Arbitrage-- court resolution No. 4/8.
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The Russian law on joint stock companies, together with the civil code, is the principal law regulating the activities of joint stock companies in Russia today. Author Anna Tarassova was its primary Russian drafter, and authors Black and Kraakman served as advisors during the drafting process. This book aims to present their definitive examination and analysis of Russian company law. The authors have bolstered their own first-hand perspective with the advice and guidance of practicing attorneys who work with this law on a daily basis. The book also includes features of particular interest to academics, such as: an explanation of the theoretical structure of the law as a "self-enforcing" law; a critique of the new company law, including explication of places where the law complies with the letter of the Civil Code yet reaches results not contemplated by Civil Code drafters; a model company law which corrects errors and oversights in the draft that led to the actual company law and incorporates new ideas that emerged in the legislative process; and also an explanation of the differences between the model and actual law. An index of all references to Civil Code and company law and a subject matter index enhance this work even further as an accessible resource.
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• Grundlagen der Verfassungsordnung
• Rechte und Freiheiten des Menschen und Bürgers
• Föderativer Aufbau
• Der Präsident der Russländischen Föderation
• Die Bundesversammlung
• Die Regierung der Russländischen Föderation
• Die rechtsprechende Gewalt und die Staatsanwaltschaft
• Die örtliche Selbstverwaltung
• Verfassungsänderungen und Revision der Verfassung.

• Socio-legal perspectives on immigration and refugee law in Russia
• Immigration and refugee law in Russia : an overview of the legal environment
• Immigration and refugee lawyers as cause lawyers : cause lawyering with the grain?
• Everyday experiences of Russian immigration law : the entry bar case study
• Tracing the case file : culture of materiality in immigration and refugee law
• The use of human rights in Russian courts : analysis of judgments in immigration and refugee law cases
• Who are the humans behind the human rights cases? : migration cases from Russia to the European Court of Human Rights
• Conclusions.

Immigration and Refugee Law in Russia confronts the issue of access to justice and the realisation of human rights for migrants and refugees in Russia. It focuses on everyday experiences of immigration and refugee laws and how they work 'in action' in Russia. This investigation presupposes that the reality is much more complex than is generally assumed, as it is mediated by peoples' varied positionalities. Agnieszka Kubal's primary focus is on people, their stories and experiences: migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, immigration lawyers, Russian judges, and the Federal Migration Service officers. These actors speak with different voices, profess different ideologies, and hold opposite worldviews; what they hold in common is their importance to our understanding of migration processes. By this focus on individual views and opinions, Kubal highlights the complexity and nuance of everyday experiences of the law, breaking away from the portrayal of Russia as a legal and ideological monolith.
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• Features of Russian law-- Enterprise and company law-- Tax law-- Competition law-- Contract law-- Intellectual property law-- Regulation of foreign trade transactions-- Index.
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This volume provides a comprehensive overview of business law in Russia. It presents an introduction to the Russian legal system in general before going on to provide a thorough analysis of the key aspects such as regulation, taxation, competition, contracts, intellectual property law, among many others. Where appropriate, cases and international comparisons are included to help illustrate the practical workings of this complex system. The book will be an invaluable guide for students, researchers and practitioners who want a clear understanding of legislation relating to business in contemporary Russia.
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• 1. Introduction: three puzzles of post-communist judicial empowerment--
• 2. Non-linear judicial empowerment--
• 3. Making and re-making constitutional review Russian-style--
• 4. The Russian constitutional review in action (1990-3)--
• 5. Decision-making of the 2nd Russian constitutional court: 1995-2006--
• 6. The constitutional court has ruled ... what next?--
• 7. The 2nd Russian constitutional court (1995-2007): problematique of implementation--
• 8. 'Tinkering' with judicial tenure and 'wars of courts' in comparative perspective.
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This book is the first in-depth study of the actual role that the Russian Constitutional Court played in protecting fundamental rights and resolving legislative-executive struggles and federalism disputes in both Yeltsin's and Putin's Russia. Trochev argues that judicial empowerment is a non-linear process with unintended consequences and that courts that depend on their reputation flourish only if an effective and capable state is there to support them. This is because judges can rely only on the authoritativeness of their judgments, unlike politicians and bureaucrats, who have the material resources necessary to respond to judicial decisions. Drawing upon systematic analysis of all decisions of the Russian Court (published and unpublished) and previously unavailable materials on their (non-)implementation, and resting on a combination of the approaches from comparative politics, law, and public administration, this book shows how and why judges attempted to reform Russia's governance and fought to ensure compliance with their judgments.
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• Interpretation and hard cases
• The scope and limits of judicial law-making
• The forms of judge-made law in Russia
• Judicial policies
• Russian labour law and the courts : a case study
• Joint-stock societies and arbitrazh courts : a case study.

A novel and incisive investigation of the role of judicial precedents and customs in Russian law, this book examines the trends in the development of judge-made law in Russian civil law since the demise of the Soviet Union. Exploring the interrelated propositions that a certain creative element is intrinsic to the judicial function in modern legal systems, which are normally shaped by both legislators and judges and that the Russian legal system is not an exception to this rule, the author argues that the rejection or acceptance of judge-made law can no longer be sufficient grounds for distinguishing between common law and civil law systems for the purposes of comparative analysis. Divided into six chapters, it covers: the principles applied by judges when interpreting legal acts; analyzing a number of academic writings on this subject the boundaries of the realm of judge-made law and the problem of 'hard cases' and the factors, which make them 'hard' a taxonomy of forms in which Russian courts effectuate their law-creation functions current policies of courts in legal and socio-political matters joint-stock societies and arbitrazh courts. Estimating the degree of creativity within different branches of the Russian judiciary and explaining the difference in the approaches of various courts as well as setting out proposals as to how the discrepancies in judicial practice can be avoided, "Judicial Law-Making in Post-Soviet Russia" is invaluable reading for all students of international law, comparative law, legal skills, method and systems and jurisprudence and philosophy of law.
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• Constitutionalism in the new Russia / Bruce L. R. Smith
• From a centrally planned government system to a rule-of-law democracy / Wolfgang Fikentscher
• Toward a rule of law and a bill of rights for Russia / Vasily A. Vlasihin
• Organizational property and privatization in Russia / Robert D. Cooter
• Fertile money / Gordon P. Getty
• Fertile money and banks in Russia : a comment / Robert E. Litan
• International law and the future of Rechtsstaat in Russia / Gennady M. Danilenko
• Environmental protection and the development of free markets in Russia / E. Donald Elliott.
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This book presents papers by American, Western European, and Russian legal scholars who discuss recent constitutional developments in Russia, assess the complex processes of change that are under way, and interpret Russian constitutionalism in light of both the American and European experience. Dialogues on Public Policy.
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• Russian law in a comparative perspective
• Sources and hierarchy of laws
• The judicial system
• The legal profession
• Constitutional law
• Individual rights
• Civil and commercial law
• Civil and arbitrazh procedure
• Private international law
• Foreign investment law
• Criminal procedure
• Criminal law
• Administrative law
• Tax law.

• Russian law in a comparative perspective
• Sources and hierarchy of law
• The judicial system
• The legal profession
• Constitutional law
• Individual rights
• Civil and commercial law
• Civil and arbitrazh procedure
• Private international law
• Foreign investment law
• Criminal procedure
• Criminal law
• Administrative law
• Tax law.

• Russian law in a comparative perspective
• Sources and hierarchy of law
• The judicial system
• The legal profession
• Constitutional law
• Individual rights
• Civil and commercial law
• Civil and arbitrazh procedure
• Private international law
• Foreign investment law
• Criminal procedure
• Criminal law
• Administrative law
• Tax law.