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OverviewLawyers often play pivotal roles in building democracies. Pamela Jordan's engaging study of the Russian bar (advokatura) provides a richly textured portrait of how, after the USSR's collapse, practising lawyers called advocates began to assume new, self-defined roles as contributors to legal reform and defenders of rights in Russia. Using the historical institutionalism approach as her analytical framework and drawing from comparative literature on legal professions, Jordan argues that the post-Soviet advokatura as an institution gained more, although not complete, autonomy from the state as it struggled to redefine itself as a profession. Jordan suggests that advocates' work is supporting the growth of civil society and the strengthening of human rights in Russia. Defending Rights in Russia concludes that, in a measured way advocates redistributed social and political power, by means of their role as intermediary actors between state and societal forces. However, she also warns that such gains could be reversed if the Putin regime continues to flout due process rights. This multidisciplinary work will be of interest to specialists on Russia, post-communism, human rights, the history of professions and institutions, and legal studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Pamela JordanPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.520kg ISBN: 9780774811620ISBN 10: 0774811625 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 18 May 2005 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Russian and Soviet Bars: A Historical Perspective,1864-1984 2. The Advokatura in the Gorbachev Period, 1985-91 3. Chaos in the Advokatura, 1992-2002 4. Autonomy and Dependence: State-Bar Relations in the 1990s 5. Restructuring the Advokatura from Above, 2002-3 6. Russian Criminal Defence Advocacy in the Post-Soviet Era 7. New Trends in Advocates' Practice in the Civil Sphere Conclusion Appendices 1 Surveys of Advocates' Opinions / 2 Stages of a Russian Criminal Case / Notes / Selected Bibliography / Index /ReviewsA welcome addition to the literature on legal reform in Russia... It will be seen as the definitive work on the development of the Russian bar. - Gordon B. Smith, Professor of Government and International Studies, University of South Carolina, author of Reforming the Russian Legal System; The scholarship is exemplary... The book offers new and important insights and will be of interest to students of Russian studies as well as specialists in comparative law and politics. All readers will come away from this work with a much fuller understanding of the depth of change in the legal and social fabric of Russia in the 1990s. - Eugene Huskey; William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science and Russian Studies, Stetson University; author of Russian Lawyers and the Soviet State and Presidential Power in Russia Author InformationPamela A. Jordan is an assistant professor in theDepartment of History at the University of Saskatchewan. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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