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The development of a Russian legal consciousness /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wortman, Richard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Edición:Paperback ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 345 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-336) and index.
ISBN:9780226907772
0226907775
1283250403
9781283250405
9786613250407
6613250406