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
