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Development Of Ukrainian Real Property And Mortgage Law: The American Perspective, Zhanna Bulkina
Development Of Ukrainian Real Property And Mortgage Law: The American Perspective, Zhanna Bulkina
San Diego International Law Journal
Modern Ukrainian commercial law started to develop following the break-up of the Soviet Union in August 1991 and the reemergence of Ukraine as an independent democratic state. As a result of the break-up, in 1991 the new state of Ukraine inherited the jurisprudence, institutions and government of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. While Ukraine quickly shed its Soviet past by changing the communist names of streets and institutions, the transition was not as easy when it came to substantive changes in Ukrainian jurisprudence and legal thinking. Ukraine needed to develop its own system of law to establish an open …