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Leveling The Playing Field For Religious "Liberty" In Russia:, Afina Lekhel
Leveling The Playing Field For Religious "Liberty" In Russia:, Afina Lekhel
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The purpose of this Note is to present a more comprehensive framework for analyzing the status of religious human rights in Russia after the enactment of the new law. Following the insights of an eminent scholar on law and religion, Prof. Harold J. Berman, the topic may be evaluated with a view to positive law (Zakon), moral theory (Pravo), and Russian historical experiences. Generally, positive law refers to domestic legal norms. Moral theory also stems primarily from domestic supra-legal sources, but it may connote global human rights principles where a state subscribes to monism, as Russia currently does. Historical contingencies …