age in statute or other written law.
Individual scholars may be influential by drafting legislation or debating proposed legislation. Unlike in some civil-law systems, academic treatises or learned commentary is not considered a separate source of law or cited by judges, but judges and attorney rely on it for their arguments.
All international law and the international treaties of the Russian Federation are part of Russian domestic legal system. Domestic law gives way to international law according to Article 15 of the Constitution. The Constitutional Court has the greatest expertise in applying international law.
Type of legal system
During the Soviet period, Russian law was considered to be socialist law. Since the fall of the Soviet Union that is no longer the case, and most scholars have classified the Russian legal system as a civil law system. However, there are problems with this new classification (similar to the ones that plagued Russia's classification as a socialist law country). For more, see William Partlett, Reclassifying Russian Law: Mechanisms, Outcomes, and Solutions for an Overly Politicized Field (reference below). Some legal branches could be considered as the mix of civil law and common law. For, example civil procedural law is considered by Dmitry Maleshin as a mix of civil law and common law.
The Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Российская газета) is the daily newspaper of record which includes the official decrees, statements and documents of state bodies such as the promulgation of newly approved laws, presidential decrees, and governmental orders.
- Institute of State and Law
- Russian legal history
- Old Russian Law
- List of Russian legal historians
- Constitution of Russia
- Civil Code of Russia
- Copyright in Russia
- Criminal Code of Russia
- Law of the Soviet Union
- Judicial system of the Russian Empire
- Garant database of Russian legislation
- Consultant Plus database of Russian legislation
- Scholars in Russian law
- Peter Maggs, William Burnham and Gennady Danilenko, Law and Legal System of the Russian Federation, Juris Publishing, Inc., 2012
- William Partlett, Reclassifying Russian Law: Mechanisms, Outcomes, and Solutions for an Overly Politicized Field, Columbia Journal of East European Law, Vol. 2, p. 1 (2008). Available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1197762.
- kremlin.ru/acts — Documents of the President of Russia (in Russian)
- government.ru/docs — Documents of the Government of Russia (in Russian)
- zakon.scli.ru — Normative legal acts of the Russian Federation from the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation (in Russian)
- pravo.gov.ru — Official Russian internet portal for legal information (in Russian)
- Russian Private Law — A blog in English on Russian private law problems
- Legal Research Guide: Russia from the Library of Congress