Private and Civil Law in the Russian Federation (Law in Eastern Europe)

The chapters in this volume are from two Leiden conferences. There, distinguished scholars and practitioners from Russia and the Far Abroad measured the winds of change in the field of private law in post-Soviet Russia: enormous differences from the Soviet period, crucial in supporting post-Soviet changes toward freedom of choice in the marketplaces of goods, services, ideas and political institutions. This volume will enable the reader to further chart the progress made in Russia (and the region) in the revitalization of private and civil law—and its impact upon practice and comparative legal studies—and to appreciate the role which the distinction between the public and private sectors is seen as playing in the process. The Russian Civil Code and its impact upon commercial transactions Alexander l. Makovskii The civil codes of the Russian Federation and the Netherlands : similarities and contrasts / W. Snijders Civil law according to Russian legislation : developments and trends / Mikhail I. Braginskii Branches of law under the Russian Civil Code (with special attention to labor law) / Ger P. Van den Berg Comments on the 1994 Russian Civil Code and its meaning for comparative legal studies / Dietrich Andre Loeber The constitutionality of civil law norms / Gadis Gadzhiev, Viktor M. Zhuikov The arbitrazh courts and the new Russian civil code / Veniamin F. Iakovlev The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and the new Russian civil code The role and significance of international arbitration in the formation of a modern legal system in Russia / Alexander S. Komarov New legislation on insolvency (bankruptcy) / Vasilii V. Vitrianskii Russian bankruptcy law in practice and its impact on the 1998 Bankruptcy Law / Wim A. Timmermans Entrepreneurs and consumers as subjects of civil law / Jane Henderson Russian civil law between remnants of the past and flavor of the present / Bernard Dutoit Reflections of Anglo-American legal concepts and language in the new Russian civil code / Peter B. Maggs Liability for the improper performance of work contracts The protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation under the RF civil code : problems of judicial enforcement / Andrei V. Rakhmilovich The law of inheritance of the Russian Federation : some characteristic features / N. M. Van der Horst Private law and public law / F.J.M. Feldbrugge A theory of principles of law : the revival of a forgotten conception / Sergey Belyaev Branches of law Administrative reform in Central and Eastern Europe : extracting civil services from communist bureaucracies / Antoaneta L. Dimitrova La propriete c'est le vol : "property is theft" revisited / Katlijn Malfliet Liberalism and neo-patrimonialism in post-communist Russia / Richard Sakwa Politics of the Yukos affair / Robert Sharlet. The chapters in this volume are from two Leiden conferences. There, distinguished scholars and practitioners from Russia and the Far Abroad measured the winds of change in the field of private law in post Soviet Russia: the resulting reforms have been crucial in support of freedom of choice and freedom from state interference in the marketplace of goods and services. This volume will enable the reader to further chart the progress made in Russia (and the region) in the revitalization of private and civil law - and its impact upon practice and comparative legal studies - and to appreciate the role which the distinction between the public and private sectors is seen as playing in the process