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Federalism Or Federationism, William E. Butler
Federalism Or Federationism, William E. Butler
Michigan Law Review
When I took up my appointment in October 1970 as Reader in Comparative Law in the University of London, I was invited to collaborate in teaching the LL.M.' course in Soviet Law offered within the University on an intercollegiate basis. The course had been introduced two years previously, the first of its kind within the realm. Originally it was offered by a team of three, regrettably all now deceased: Edward Johnson, Ivo Lapenna, and Albert K. R Kiralfy. I had come to England to replace the late Edward Johnson, whose untimely death had left vacant the Readership in Soviet Law, …
Language Of Lullabies: The Russification And De-Russification Of The Baltic States, Sonia Bychkov Green
Language Of Lullabies: The Russification And De-Russification Of The Baltic States, Sonia Bychkov Green
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article argues that the laws for promotion of the national languages are a legitimate means for the Baltic states to establish their cultural independence from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
The Role Of Law In The Soviet System: Looking Back And Moving Forward, Sarah J. Reynolds
The Role Of Law In The Soviet System: Looking Back And Moving Forward, Sarah J. Reynolds
Michigan Journal of International Law
Review of Russian Law: The End of the Soviet System and the Role of Law by F.J.M. Feldbrugge
Models For A Gorbachev Constitution Of The U.S.S.R., John N. Hazard
Models For A Gorbachev Constitution Of The U.S.S.R., John N. Hazard
Michigan Journal of International Law
Western Sovietologists were startled when Secretary General Mikhail S. Gorbachev set his craftsmen to work in the Summer of 1988 to prepare a revised structure for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ("U.S.S.R."). While some hint of what was to come had been given by publications prior to the 19th Communist Party Conference, and while some of these appeared in the theses to be debated at the Conference, Westerners expected little more than a call from the tribune for change in attitudes. Basic State structures established by Leonid Brezhnev in his 1977 Constitution had not previously been questioned. Critics levelled …
Lawyers In Soviet Work Life, Michigan Law Review
Lawyers In Soviet Work Life, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Lawyers in Soviet Work Life by Louise I. Shelley
Socialism And Federation, John N. Hazard
Socialism And Federation, John N. Hazard
Michigan Law Review
Federal structures are often established by national founders to manage intractable problems created over generations, if not centuries, by the migration of peoples. Military and economic pressures may stimulate union to assure survival, but ethnic, racial or religious tensions sometimes hamper draftsmen who sense the need for unity. Federation has often been the modem solution to the conflict between the need for unity and the desire for autonomy felt by groups fearing the loss of identity.
Final Judgment: My Life As A Soviet Defense Attorney, Michigan Law Review
Final Judgment: My Life As A Soviet Defense Attorney, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defense Attorney by Dina Kaminskaya
Beyond Freedom And Dignity: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn And The American Gulag, Ira P. Robbins
Beyond Freedom And Dignity: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn And The American Gulag, Ira P. Robbins
Michigan Law Review
A review of The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation. Volume III by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Grzybowski: Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines And Social Functions, Isaac Shapiro
Grzybowski: Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines And Social Functions, Isaac Shapiro
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines and Social Functions. By Kazimierz Grzybowski.
Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee
Chinese Communist Law: Its Background And Development, Luke T. Lee
Michigan Law Review
It is perhaps axiomatic to state that law is more than an instrument for the settlement of disputes and punishment of wrongdoers; it is, more importantly, a reflection of the way of life and the philosophy of the people that live under it. Self-evident though the above may be, it bears repeating here, for there is a much greater need for understanding Chinese law now than ever before. China's growing ideological, political, economic, and military impact on the rest of the world would alone serve as a powerful motivation for the study of its law. Certainly, we could not even …
Soviet Civil Law: A Review, Roscoe Pound
Soviet Civil Law: A Review, Roscoe Pound
Michigan Law Review
Here is an excellent and much needed book. Although the enthusiastic wishful thinking about things Russian, fashionable not so long ago, has for the most part abated, the rise of a new social and economic order on a great scale must call for careful study by lawyers and law-makers no less than by historians and economists and students of politics. Now that a generation has been at work constructively since the destructive era of militant communism after the revolution, we need accurate and objectively presented and interpreted information as to how the administration of justice goes on under "the dictatorship …
Soviet Law Of Inheritance: I, Vladimir Gsovski
Soviet Law Of Inheritance: I, Vladimir Gsovski
Michigan Law Review
The Soviet law of inheritance has suffered several drastic changes. Not only were the statutory provisions changed, but the attitude of soviet jurists to the very institution of devolution of property on death has presented a constantly changing picture.
Soviet Law Of Inheritance: Ii, Vladimir Gsovski
Soviet Law Of Inheritance: Ii, Vladimir Gsovski
Michigan Law Review
Wills. Neither the Civil Code nor any other statute sets forth any specific requirements for capacity to make a will. Therefore, the soviet jurists deem any person who is generally competent to enter into legal transactions (Civil Code, Section 8) capable of making a will. Thus, minors under the age of eighteen years and persons adjudged unable to manage their affairs because of mental disease or weak-mindedness do not have testamentary capacity. Likewise, a will executed by a testator while "in a state of mind which precluded his understanding the significance of his acts," has no validity (id., Section 3r).
Criminal Law In Russia, Pendelton Howard
Criminal Law In Russia, Pendelton Howard
Michigan Law Review
A Review of SOVIET ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL LAW. By Judah Zelitch.
The Recognition Of Russia, Edwin D. Dickinson
The Recognition Of Russia, Edwin D. Dickinson
Michigan Law Review
Revolution in Russia culminated, on March 15, 1917, in the abdication of the Romanoffs and the establishment of the Provisional Government. In November, 1917, the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviki and the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic was proclaimed. Thus in nine turbulent months authority in Russia passed from the autocracy of the Czars, through the ineffective hands of the moderates, to extreme radicals frankly committed to communism and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Marriage-Validity Of Marriage Terminable At Will Of The Parties Under Soviet Law
Marriage-Validity Of Marriage Terminable At Will Of The Parties Under Soviet Law
Michigan Law Review
Petitioner married the respondent in Moscow, in 1924, the parties being the domiciled in the Soviet Union. By Soviet law a divorce could be secured upon the registration of both parties of their desire to terminate the marriage, or upon the application of one of them to a court which had no discretion but to dissolve the union. The petitioner filed a bill for separation in England, and an issue was directed in the lower court to determine whether the parties had ever been husband and wife. The court held the marriage invalid, but on appeal it was held the …