Defending Rights in Russia - Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reform in the Post-Soviet Era

Pamela A. Jordan is an assistant professor in theDepartment of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

List of contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. The Russian and Soviet Bars: A Historical Perspective,1864-1984

2. The Advokatura in the Gorbachev Period, 1985-91

3. Chaos in the Advokatura, 1992-2002

4. Autonomy and Dependence: State-Bar Relations in the 1990s

5. Restructuring the Advokatura from Above, 2002-3

6. Russian Criminal Defence Advocacy in the Post-Soviet Era

7. New Trends in Advocates' Practice in the Civil Sphere

Conclusion



Appendices

1 Surveys of Advocates' Opinions /

2 Stages of a Russian Criminal Case /



Notes /

Selected Bibliography /

Index /

About the author

Pamela A. Jordan is an assistant professor in theDepartment of History at the University of Saskatchewan.

Summary

Offers a study of the Russian bar (advokatura) that provides a portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse, practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new, self-defined roles as contributors to legal reform and defenders of rights in Russia. It is useful for specialists on Russia, post-communism, human rights, and legal studies.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Jordan, Pamela A. Jordan, Pamela A. Jordon
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2006
• EAN: 9780774811637
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1163-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Weight: 420 g
• Illustrations: 4 tables
• Series: Law and Society; Law and Society (Paperback); Law and Society; Law and Society (Paperback)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law