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Defending rights in Russia : lawyers, the state, and legal reform in the post-Soviet era

Title
Defending rights in Russia : lawyers, the state, and legal reform in the post-Soviet era / Pamela A. Jordan.
Author
Jordan, Pamela A.
Publication
Vancouver : UBC Press, [2005], ©2005.

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x, 285 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Lawyers often play pivotal roles in building democracies. Pamela Jordan's engaging study of the Russian bar (advokatura) provides a richly textured 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." "Using the historical institutionalism approach as her analytical framework and drawing from comparative literature on legal professions, Jordan argues that the post-Soviet advokatura as an institution gained more, although not complete, autonomy from the state as it struggled to redefine itself as a profession. Advocates formed new bar associations and law offices and now have a broader range of ways to defend clients' rights than they did during the Soviet era. Jordan suggests that advocates' work is supporting the growth of civil society and the strengthening of human rights in Russia." "Jordan concludes that, in a measured way, advocates redistributed social and political power by means of their role as intermediary actors between state and societal forces. However, she also warns that such gains could be reversed if the Putin regime continues to flout due process rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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 -- App. 1. Surveys of advocates' opinions -- App. 2. Stages in a Russian criminal case.
ISBN
0774811625 (bound) :
OCLC
  • ocm59876052
  • SCSB-5190733
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries