Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1994-2540 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1956 (Online)


Law

Evolution of the Role of Ideologies in the Post-Soviet Period

В статье дается научный анализ и осмысление важнейших проблем политических реалий современной России. Подчеркивается, что идеология является важнейшим фактором политической жизни, которой приходится учитывать основным субъектам политики современной России.

Judicial Precedent in the Systems of International and European Law

The paper presents a revised approach to a number of international courts’ determinations including the International Court of Justice and the Court of Justice of the European Communities. The author stresses the unique feature of the latter – the unconditional obligatoriness of its decisions for all Member States of the European Union.

State Control and Quality and Safety Inspection of Consumer Goods and Services

The paper considers administrative and legal problems of inspection of the quality and safety of consumer goods and services in the conditions of the modern government reform. Principal inspection rights of government and local bodies in the sphere of consumer right protection are discussed. Some measures are suggested for better cooperation between the departments of the Federal Consumer Protection Agency and local bodies.

History of the Development of Road Freightage Law before the Adoption of the Civil Law Principles of the USSR and the Union Republics

The paper takes up questions of the appearance of road freightage law to regulate relations between the consignor, the transport body, and the consignee regarding the usage of specialized rolling-stock, planning transportation, optimal cargo distribution etc. The most of the problems raised are still urgent.

Modern Problems of Presentation for the Identification Anol Ways to Solve them

Objects, kinds and varieties of presentation for the identification are specified basing on the analysis of directing criminalists judgment. The significant attention is given to scantily explored problems of tactics of presentation for the identification, excluding visual observation of identifying person by the identifying person. The tactical methods are stated that allow to optimize realization of the present variety of presentation for the identification. Ways to solve modern problems of presentation for the identification.

On the Goals and Tasks of Criminal Justice

The problem of goals and tasks in criminal justice is aggravated by the absence of these categories in the Criminal Procedure Code. At the same time, the legislator introduces a new category, the category of criminal justice purpose, into the Code. Such categories as goals, tasks, and functions of criminal justice should be differentiated, their role in legal procedures should be shown, and the category of criminal justice purpose should be brought out.

Dissident Movement in the USSR (1960–1970)

The causes, origin, and evolution of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union during the period of «developed socialism» are considered. The heterogeneity of the movement, its relations with the authorities, its forms of struggle for the observance of human rights and legality are shown.

Legal Culture of Modern Russia

Russia is searching for the ways of establishing civil society. One of them is to raise legal culture. This gives an opportunity to achieve a real guarantee of rights and liberties of a person as the highest value. The low level of legal conscience leads to legal nihilism, to creating the ground for lawlessness which sometimes has the character of national calamity causing great damage to the society. This creates many contradictions, eliminates the possibility of dialogue of different world views.

Equality Before Court: its Realization for the Jury

The principle of everybody’s equality before the jury may be regarded ambiguously, namely, equal access to the jury court and equal rights of all the jurors at trial. Everybody’s equality at the formation and operation of a jury is closely connected with everybody’s right to participate in government, including administering justice. However, there are some legal restrictions of this right which are considered in the paper.

Faculty of Law at Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevski

The fate of the faculty of law as a department of Saratov University has not been easy since its very appearance. Its intended opening in 1909 did not take place for political reasons as well as financial ones. Only on 1 July 1917, after the overthrow of the monarchy, a faculty of law (along with some other ones) was opened at Saratov University by a decree of the Provisional Government. In 1920 a historical department joined the faculty of law and the latter was renamed to the legal faculty and, after a while, to the faculty of social sciences.

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