The article gives the level-metatheoretical investigation of methodological and organizational issues of the Russian doctrine of the civil law application as a special juridical tenet of the application of law at the present stage and in the concrete-historical retrospect.

The article gives a level-metatheoretical investigation of methodological-organizational issues of the Russian doctrine of application of civil laws as a special juridical tenet of application of law, at the present stage and in the concrete-historical retrospect. The article has an...

The article systematizes features of the notion "civil law" which is defined in a wide philosophical-legal and in a narrow positive-juridical meanings. Legal contents of those features is analysed as well.

The article discloses questions of the classification (characterization, qualification) of civil relationships from the standpoint of concurrence (competition) of civil legal rules subdivided into general and special ones. The necessity to differentiate the notions 'concurrence' and 'conflict'...

The article considers issues relating to the method of legal relationship as a synthetic special-juridical method. The author describes notion, subject matter and algorithm of the method of legal relationship. Principles, goals and objectives of the method's use, as well as objects which can be...

The investigation of the problem of civil law rule structure and the consideration of notions of the hypothesis, solution and sanction are given in this article. The interconnection between the hypothesis of the civil legal rule and the judicial grounds of realizing the civil law consequences,...

The article deals with analysis of theoretical aspects of the category of “international treaties” from the point of view of their place in the hierarchical structure of the legal system of the Russian Federation and their correlation to the civil legislation. The author describes the...

The article deals with general questions of the methodology of knowledge of civil-legal phenomena, as objects of the legal reality. The author accentuates a problem of methodology of the application of civil laws, as a special kind of work to organize a cognitive process, detecting regularities...

Can the market provide law enforcement? This paper addresses this question by examining an historical case-study: the system of private prosecutions that prevailed in England prior to the introduction of the police. Using a model of the market for crime, I examine why this system came under...

This research studies the impact of changes to federal judicial discretion on criminal sentencing outcomes. The Feeney Amendment to the 2003 PROTECT Act restricted federal judges’ ability to impose sentences outside of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and required appellate courts to review...