Using cross sectional data from all 47 Counties in Kenya, the presence of contract breaches between the producers and chain intermediary node is investigated. Most farmers do not engage in contracting and for those who do, many of these contracts are found to be informal. In addition, most of...

With the election of an African American as President, many would think that the question of affirmative action and equal opportunity has been finally laid to rest in the United States. This perception may be true for the proponents of affirmative action, whom over the years believe that the...

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'...

This is a critical evaluation of the book entitled The Long Divergence:How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East by Timur Kuran.

This is a critical evaluation of the book entitled The Long Divergence:How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East by Timur Kuran.

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...