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Title

Toward the "rule of law" in Russia? : political and legal reform in the transition period / edited by Donald D. Barry.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1992.

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Additional Authors

Barry, Donald D.

Description

xxv, 402 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Law reform > Soviet Union
• Rule of law > Soviet Union
• Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1985-1991

Note

• Revised papers from a conference held at Lehigh University, May 30-June 1, 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Donald D. Barry -- pt. I. Historical and conceptual background. The rise and fall of the law-based state in the experience of Russian legal scholarship : foreign scholarship and domestic style / Gianmaria Ajani -- From legal nihilism to pravovoe gosudarstvo : Soviet legal development, 1917-1990 -- The rule of law and the law-based state with special reference to the Soviet Union / Harold J. Berman -- pt. II. Pravovoe gosudarstvo and the Soviet society. Legal consciousness and the pravovoe gosudarstvo / Louise I. Shelley -- Regional and national variations : the Baltic factor / Dietrich Andre Loeber -- The evaluation of the Soviet constitution / John N. Hazard -- The Soviet legislature : Gorbachev's school of democracy / Frances Foster-Simons -- Executive power and the concept of pravovoe gosudarstvo / Ger P. van den Berg -- The law-based state and the CPSU / Hiroshi Oda -- pt. III. The impact of substantive and procedural law on individuals and organizations. Domestic law and international law : importing superior standards / George Ginsburgs -- The fate of individual rights in the age of perestroika / Robert Sharlet -- Informal politics and the rule of law / Nicolai Petro -- Reforming criminal law under Gorbachev : crime, punishment, and the rights of the accused / Peter H. Solomon, Jr.
• The quest for judicial independence : Soviet courts in a pravovoe gosudarstvo / Donald D. Barry -- Substantive and procedural protection of the rights of economic entities and their owners / Peter B. Maggs -- Soviet civil law and the emergence of a pravovoe gosudarstvo : do foreigners figure in the grand scheme? / William B. Simons -- The ideals of the provovoe gosudarstvo and the Soviet workplace : a case study of layoffs / Kathryn Hendley -- pt. V. Commentary. Sovie legal developments 1917-1990 : a comment / Albert Schmidt -- The Baltic case and the problem of creating a law-based state / Egidijus Kuris -- Lawmaking under Gorbachev judged by the standards of a law-based society / Vladimir Entin -- Constitutional reform in the USSR / Avgust Mishin -- Implementation of international human rights standards in the Lithuanian legal system and the problem of the law-based state / Pranas Kuris -- Rejection of justice / Yuri Feofanov -- What kind of court and procuracy? / Valery Savitsky -- Enterprises on the difficult path ot a market economy : legal aspects / Vikton P. Mozolin.

ISBN

1563240653 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^92009677^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library