This book is a detailed treatment of the Russian legal system written especially for English-speaking law students and lawyers. While it is designed primarily as a casebook, it will also be useful as a reference for scholars specializing in Russian and East European area studies and for lawyers bound for practice in Russia.

The cooperation of U.S. lawyers who are specialists in Russian law and a Russian lawyer assure that the book retains all the subtleties of Russian law, while presenting a frame of reference and approach familiar to the American law student and lawyer.

A number of changes have taken place in the Russian Federation since the publication of the 2nd Edition. The 3rd Edition of The Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation contains the following new material:

Changes in the law and case decisions of the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and Supreme Arbitrazh Court through July 2004

New chapters on Administrative Law and Tax law

Civil Law chapter covers adoption of the Land Code, which allowed Ch. 17 of the Civil Code on private land ownership to be put into effect

Major reorganization and expansion of the judicial system chapter to cover the jurisdictional battle between the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court New Civil Procedure, Arbitrazh Procedure and Criminal Procedure Codes are covered in detail Complete revision of the Constitutional Law chapter to reflect changes in federalism under President Putin Inclusion of the important Supreme Court cases on enforcement of foreign court and arbitral judgments in Russia in the Private International Law chapter An improved index that provides page cites for definitions of important terms.