History of Russian advocacy

19,99

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For its first major anniversary, which was celebrated in 1914, the Russian legal community prepared a special edition that covered the achievements of the domestic legal profession over the past 50 years. The adoption of the Judicial Statutes in 1864 was the crowning achievement of the era of the "Great Reforms" of Emperor Alexander II. “To establish in Russia a speedy, just, merciful and equal court for all subjects, to exalt the judiciary, to give it proper independence, and in general to establish among the people that respect for the law, without which social welfare is impossible, and which should be a constant leader of the actions of everyone and everyone. from the highest to the lowest,” wrote Emperor Alexander II in his decree to the Governing Senate, which launched judicial reform in the Russian Empire.
These transformations changed not only the legal proceedings of the Russian Empire, but also the whole way of life of a huge state, and for the Russian advocacy, in fact, it became its birthday. The titanic work to create a monumental work to perpetuate the achievements of the Russian legal profession was headed by a well-known lawyer and politician, deputy of the Second State Duma, Joseph Vladimirovich Gessen; the work on the second and third volumes was coordinated by the famous jurist and criminologist Mikhail Nikolaevich Gernet. The first volume of The History of the Russian Advocacy was published in 1914, and the second and third in 1916. As a result of many years of collective efforts, a “monument to the moral unity of the Russian advocacy and the testament of the outgoing generations to the coming hard but glorious work in the name of the triumph of law and justice” appeared. ". The first, pre-revolutionary edition has long become a bibliographic rarity. Before you is an illustrated modern edition of this unique work.

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Publication language: Russian

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