Reforming the Russian Legal System

Klappentext Reforming the Russian Legal System is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the republics of the former USSR. Looking beneath the flow of day-to-day developments! the book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values! and the 74-year experience with communism and 'socialist legality' are being combined with Western concepts of justice and due process to forge a new legal consciousness in Russia today. The author provides a broad historical survey of pre-revolutionary and Soviet-era legal developments! which provides a backdrop to the reforms initiated by Gorbachev. Chapters analysing constitutional law! criminal law and procedure! the Procuracy! and the laws governing the transition to a market economy illustrate the recurring themes of the book: the interaction of crosscurrents in Russian legal culture! and variations in the pace of legal reform from republic to republic and region to region. Zusammenfassung This is a comprehensive analysis of the forces that are shaping legal reform in the former USSR. The book examines how traditional indigenous Russian legal values! and the 74-year experience with communism and 'socialist legality' are being combined with Western concepts of justice and due process to forge a new legal consciousness in Russia today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Pre-revolutionary Russian law; 2. The Bolshevik experience; 3. The history of legal reform; 4. Forging a new constitution; 5. Citizens and the state: the debate over the Procuracy; 6. In search of a just system: the courts and judicial reform; 7. Law and the transition to a market economy; 8. Legal reform in the republics; 9. Legal reform and the transition to democracy in Russia; Appendix; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Smith Gordon B., Gordon B. Smith, Gordon B. (University of South Carolina) Smith
• Assisted by: Mary McAuley (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.1996
• EAN: 9780521456692
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45669-2
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Cambridge Russian Paperbacks
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries