Defending rights in Russia : lawyers, the State, and legal reform in the Post-Soviet era
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Defending rights in Russia : lawyers, the State, and legal reform in the Post-Soviet era
（Law and society series）
UBC Press, c2005
Available at 5 libraries
Note
Appendix 1 (p. [208]-213) : Surveys of advocates' opinions
Appendix 2 (p. [214]-216) : Stages in a criminal case in Russia
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-272) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Pamela Jordan's engaging study of the Russian bar (advokatura)provides a richly textured portrait of how, after the USSR'scollapse, practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new,self-defined roles as contributors to legal reform and defenders ofrights in Russia. Jordan argues that the post-Soviet advokatura as aninstitution gained more, although not complete, autonomy from the stateas it struggled to redefine itself as a profession and suggests thatadvocates' work is supporting the growth of civil society and thestrengthening of human rights in Russia. However, she also warns thatsuch gains could be reversed if the Putin regime continues to flout dueprocess rights.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Russian and Soviet Bars: A Historical Perspective,1864-1984
2. The Advokatura in the Gorbachev Period, 1985-91
3. Chaos in the Advokatura, 1992-2002
4. Autonomy and Dependence: State-Bar Relations in the 1990s
5. Restructuring the Advokatura from Above, 2002-3
6. Russian Criminal Defence Advocacy in the Post-Soviet Era
7. New Trends in Advocates' Practice in the Civil Sphere
Conclusion
Appendices
1 Surveys of Advocates' Opinions /
2 Stages of a Russian Criminal Case /
Notes /
Selected Bibliography /
Index /
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