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Legal thought: history and contemporarity
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3–9
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The article provides a brief overview of standard contemporary American, English, French and German textbooks and courses on international law for 2001—2006. The principal
attention is given to the analysis of the specific approach by western legal scientists to the contemporary international law and their estimate of its present state. On the basis of comparative study the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the western doctrine of International law adapts more flexibly and variably to the process of globalization
and is capable to offer more efficient instruments of legal regulation of international relations than Russian doctrine. |
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10–19
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S.S. Ostroumov — a prominent scientist in the field of judicial statistics, criminology and judicial-accounting expertise — Cand.Econ.Sc., a Doctor of Law, professor of faculty of law of Moscow State University; the author of about 200 scientific works. He was not an armchair scientist; the practical aspect is expressively presented in his works. They combine
scientific aspirations and rich life experience of the author in the sphere of the social control over crime. S.S. Ostroumov combined the talent of a scientist, a teacher, a person of wide culture and unique mind; he placed rational knowledge above practical power and devoted all his life to them. His lectures caused admiration and were very popular among students and practitioners. |
Russian law: conditions, perspectives, commentaries
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20–30
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There is a study of the prospects of developing partnership relationships between land law and civil law. The authors argue that under the conditions of market economy and private property for land we may see a trend towards intervention of civil law into land relations regulation. However, land as such, including private land, is a public good. With due regard to these conditions and to the law theory about division of law branches, the authors propose partnership rules of development of land law and civil law in regulation of land relationships. |
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31–56
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The article concerns legal problems of communications within the limits of the global Russian language information field. Attempts of the organizational solving of these problems
through creation of the World association of Russian press (ВАРП) are considered, the prime attention is given of legal mechanisms of copyright to maintain the effective functioning of the information field. The accent should be made on newly introduced author
concept of such, as "the Presumption of freedom of a reprinting of newspapers and journal articles for current questions", appeared referring to the Bern convention. The author
underlines necessity of spreading of the given legal principle on the Internet. |
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57–66
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The article is devoted to the problems of informing persons interested in technical regulations
maintenance. On the basis of the analysis of legislation the author identifies legal grounds of providing information and subjects with information duties and persons to be informed. The article contains information about situation in the field, about order and conditions of presenting such information. |
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67–71
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Institute of experts has quite a long record. However, it is highly-developed only in the field of judicial expertise. The article is devoted to the present-day issues of expert profession
as a particular case of special knowledge. The author points out the cases when in the Russian legislation the notion of "special study" is incorrectly substituted with the notion of "expertise". |
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72–80
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The article investigates the limits of legal regulaton of lobbyism in a number of foreign countries (the USA, Canada, Lithuania, etc.). The lobbist activity submits not only to the rules of law, but also to the rules of ethical behaviour of officials, to the codes of a professional
ethics of lobbyists. Lobbyism is connected with institutional conditions, vested in the system of functioning of authorities, and also depends on the state of development of other legal institutions — elections, activity of political parties, political pluralism, legislative
process. The many-sided social and legal nature of lobbyism predetermines problems with its legal grounding and practical implementation.
Among limits of legal regulation of lobbyism one can mention the following: 1) it is impossibile to include into the law on lobbyism a lot of spheres of public relations; 2) the potential of noncommercial organizations is underestimated; 3) there are no obstacles for the international lobbyism; 4) it is impossible to resist to protectionism of authorities towards
large national corporations, etc. |
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81–87
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The article contains analysis of theoretical and practical aspects of legal regulation of wages and salaries. The author studies Part VI of the Russian Federation Labour Code covering
these issues. He looks at the correlation of terms wages and remuneration, presents recommendations on structural improvement of the Part mentioned. |
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88–102
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The need to unify conflict of laws rules that comport with the reality of how securities
are held and transferred today by electronic book-entry debits and credits to securities accounts has become important. Legal uncertainty as to the law governing the effects of transfers imposes significant friction costs on transactions and operates as an important constraint on desirable reductions in liquidity exposure and as a result hinders the liquidity of the stock market. To address the current uncertainties at growing financial markets, the Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities held with an Intermediary was adopted on 13 December 2002. |
Discussion club
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103–115
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The article promotes and explains the concept of implicit presence of a natural norm in human rights and freedoms which it is necessary to understand in ethical, not in legal sense.Under this concept the legislator does not put limits to constitutionally entrenched rights and freedoms, but only specifies his understanding and interpretation of rights as the reality becomes more complicated. |
Book review
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116–118
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There is a review of the New Coursebook «International Law» (to the 50-th Anniversary
of the Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship). |
Law in Figures
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119–121
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Article presents a statistical analysis of activities of arbitration courts of Trade and Commerce Chambers. |
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