Marianna Muravyeva is Professor of Russian Law and Administration at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Readers looking for evidence of the turn towards authoritarianism in Russian legal development will certainly find it in this work, whose 14 contributors teach or practise law in Russia, the US or Western Europe … The volume offers an impressive collection of descriptive surveys of Russian legal institutions and the various branches of substantive and procedural law, including some areas, such as labour law, gender and family law, and administrative law, which are under-represented in English-language books on the Russian legal system. There are especially extensive contributions on constitutional law, human rights law, and civil and commercial law.

• Introduction, Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki, Finland)List of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsPart One: Foundations of Russian Law and the Russian Legal System1. The Russian Legal System in Comparative Perspective, Gordon B. Smith (University of South Carolina, USA)2. Sources of Russian Law, Jane Henderson (King's College, London, UK)3. The Constitutional Foundations of the Russian State, Jane Henderson (King's College, London UK)4. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Kirill Koroteev (the Agora International Human Rights Protection Group, Moscow, Russia)5. Russian Attitudes to Public International Law, Bill Bowring (Birkbeck College, London, UK)6. Russian Attitudes to Human Rights, Bill Bowring (Birkbeck College, London, UK)7. The Judicial System of the Russian Federation, Kathryn Hendley (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)8. Legal Profession and Education in Russia, Ekaterinna Khodzhaeva and Kirill Titaev (both based at European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) Part Two: Branches of Law and Substantive Law9. Russian Civil Law: Contract Law, Lorenzo Sasso (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia)10. Russian Civil Law: Commercial Law, Lorenzo Sasso (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia)11. Dispute Resolution in Commercial Law, Lorenzo Sasso (Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia)12. Labour Law, Oleg Bresky (J. Althusius Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania)13. Gender and Family Law, Marianna Muravyeva (University of Helsinki, Finland), Zhanna Chernova (European University at St. Petersburg, Russia) and Larisa Shpakovskaya (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)14. Administrative Law and Procedure, Anna-Liisa Heusala (the Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki, Finland) and Kirill Koroteev (the Agora International Human Rights Protection Group, Moscow, Russia)15. Criminal Law and Procedure, Gennadii Esakov (Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)