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Law, Morality and Society in Russiaby Frances Nethercott
RoutledgeCurzon 2006; US$ 170.00This book explores intellectual debates in Russia about 'the individual', focussing in particular on the work of Vladimir Solov'ev, who was a leading philosopher of law writing in the 1890s and whose ideas were revisited extensively in the 1990s. more...
Russian Constitutionalismby Andrei Medushevsky
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 44.95This book examines constitutionalism in Russia from Tsarist times to the present. more...
The Emergency Powers and States of Emergencyby Alexander Domrin
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 168.00Examines the nature of emergency powers and their use in the Russian constitution. This book explores the use of such powers in Russian history, comparing the Russian situation with those that exist in other countries and discussing the legal thought underpinning such powers. more...
Russian Peasants Go to Courtby Jane Burbank
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 39.95"... will challenge (and should transform) existing interpretations of late Imperial Russian governance, peasant studies, and Russian legal history." -- Cathy A. Frierson "... a major contribution to our understanding both of the dynamic of change within the peasantry and of legal development in late Imperial Russia." -- William G. Wagner Russian Peasants Go to Court brings into focus the legal practice of Russian peasants in the township courts of the Russian empire from 1905 through 1917. Contrary to prevailing conceptions of peasants as backward, drunken, and ignorant, and as mistrustful of the state, Jane Burbank's... more...
Foreign Direct Investment in Kazakhstanby E.K. Dosmukhamedov
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 115.00In this text which analyses foreign direct investment (FDI), Kazakhstan, the second largest country of the former USSR, is used as a case study to illustrate the role of FDI in restructuring the economy of the former Soviet Union countries in the post-communist era. more...
The State of Law in the South Caucasusby Christopher P. M. Waters
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 115.00Evaluates the strength of the rule of law in the South Caucasus, a volatile and strategically important region of the former Soviet Union. This work tackles this question from the perspectives of both law and politics. A range of specific issues are addressed, including corruption in the justice system, forced migration, and more. more...
Copyright, Freedom of Speech, and Cultural Policy in the Russian Federationby Michiel Elst
BRILL 2004; US$ 280.00The book provides a detailed analysis of the freedom of expression, and of copyright legislation in Russia, always with an eye on historic comparisons and evolutions . At the same time it gives a synthetic overview of the main changes in constitutional, civil and economic law in the last 15 years. more...
Judicial Law-Making in Post-Soviet Russiaby Alexander Vereshchagin
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 69.95A novel and incisive investigation of the role of judicial precedents and customs in Russian law, this book explores the trends in the development of judge-made law in Russian civil law since the demise of the Soviet Union more...
Der ärztliche Abrechnungsbetrug (German Edition)by Uwe Hellmann; Harro Herffs
Springer 2006; US$ 89.95Der ärztliche Abrechnungsbetrug beschäftigt den Medizin- und Strafrechtler gleichermaßen und regelmäßig, ohne dass es bisher zu diesem Problemfeld ein zusammenfassendes Praktikerhandbuch gab. Das Werk bietet dem Praktiker die Möglichkeit, sich schnell und gezielt über die relevanten Rechtsgebiete und die maßgeblichen materiell- und prozessrechtlichen Probleme zu informieren. Dazu werden zunächst die relevanten gesetzlichen Bestimmungen und Gegebenheiten im GKV-Bereich und in der Privatliquidation dargestellt. Dadurch wird ein schneller Überblick über die neben dem Strafrecht maßgeblichen Rechtsgebiete eröffnet. Anschließend sind die regelmäßigen Begehungsweisen anhand von Beispielen dargestellt und sodann problembezogen behandelt. Das Buch... more...
Judging Russiaby Alexei Trochev
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 40.00This book is about the origins, the functioning, and the impact of the Russian Constitutional Court. more...









