The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Wortman Richard
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, IL, : University of Chicago Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• Disciplina: 347.47; 347/.47
• Soggetto topico: Courts -- Russia -- History; Justice, Administration of -- Russia -- History; Lawyers --Russia; Courts - History - Soviet Union; Lawyers - History - Soviet Union; Justice, Administration of - Soviet Union; Law - Non-U.S; Law, Politics & Government; Law - Africa, Asia, Pacific & Antarctica
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p. 323-336.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; I. Autocracy and the Law; 1. Absolutism and Justice in Eighteenth-Century Russia; 2. Bureaucratization, Specialization, and Education; 3. The Composition of the Russian Legal Administration in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century; II. The Men; Introduction: The Noble Legal Official; 4. Russia's First Minister of Justice; 5. The Quiet Shelter; 6. Count Dmitrii Nikolaevich Bludov; 7. Count Victor Nikitich Panin; 8. The Emergence of a Legal Ethos; III. Reform; Introduction: The Old Judiciary; 9. The Aspiration to Legality ; 10. Epilogue and ConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Until the nineteenth century, the Russian legal system was subject to an administrative hierarchy headed by the tsar, and the courts were expected to enforce, not interpret the law. Richard S. Wortman here traces the first professional class of legal experts who emerged during the reign of Nicholas I (1826 - 56) and who began to view the law as a uniquely modern and independent source of authority. Discussing how new legal institutions fit into the traditional system of tsarist rule, Wortman analyzes how conflict arose from the same intellectual processes that produced legal reform. He ultimat
• Titolo autorizzato: Development of a Russian legal consciousness
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784629603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II