title: Roman law in the jurisprudence of Russian courts
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metadata.value: Rudokvas, Anton D.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Fedorova, Olga A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-06-04T21:14:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-06-04T21:14:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Rudokvas A. D., Fedorova O. A. 2024. Roman law in the jurisprudence of Russian courts. Pravovedenie 68 (1): 7–25. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2024.101 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2024.101
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45530
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metadata.value: In modern Russian judicial practice, the justification of court decisions by normative provisions
  extracted from all that is collectively embraced by the concept of “soft law” is becoming increasingly
  widespread. In this article, this phenomenon is revealed in the aspect of the practical
  application by Russian courts of certain provisions of Roman law. Considering specific examples
  of this kind, the authors, through doctrinal reflection, seek to identify common reasons
  that encourage domestic courts to turn to the mentioned source of “soft law” and come to the
  conclusion that modern Russian civil law in a sense repeated the path that was traversed by
  the civil law of imperial Russia. If, back in the middle of the 19th century, the judiciary could not
  even think of looking for a source of inspiration anywhere other than a literal interpretation of
  the text of the law, then with the beginning of the “Great Reforms” of the 1860s, the unsuitability
  of such an approach for servicing the rapidly developing turnover was revealed, and since the
  legislator could not keep up with its development, the main work of adapting positive law to
  changing relations was accepted the courts have assumed much broader discretionary powers.
  Since the possibilities of the domestic doctrine to meet the needs of the law enforcement
  officer in understanding and developing Russian law turned out to be very limited, judges found
  themselves in demand for the European civilian tradition based on Roman law, familiarity with
  which prompted them to independent judicial law-making. In many ways, similar processes are
  observed in post-Soviet Russia, a visible manifestation of which is the expansion of “soft law”
  into law enforcement practice, primarily through an appeal to the analogy of law and teleological
  interpretation. One of the facets of this process is the revival of interest in the legacy of Roman
  law and the Romanistic tradition. In this sense, unexpected parallels are found with the
  development of the common law.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 68; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: soft law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Roman law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: judicial practice
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: doctrine
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Roman law in the jurisprudence of Russian courts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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