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1 results foundAuthor: Strohmeyer, Taryn Title: "Great Laws, Bad Implementation": Criminal Justice Reform in Russia Since the Fall of the Soviet Union Summary: INTRODUCTION "We have a completely new code – the best in the world, but with the worst implementation." This is the way eminent criminal defense attorney Murad Musaev of the law firm Musaev & Partners in Moscow described the situation in Russia since the implementation of post-Soviet reforms to the criminal justice system. This was not the first or the last time I would hear about this notion of the Russian criminal justice during my trip to Russia with The University of Chicago Law School International Immersion Program, during which a group of eleven University of Chicago Law students and myself travelled to Moscow and St. Petersburg, learning over the course of ten days about the legal regime, political landscape, history, and culture of Russia through coordinated meetings, talks, lunches, dinners, and events with lawyers, UChicago alums, professors, and advocates. Over and over again, my classmates and I heard the same notion regarding Russia’s post-Soviet transition, which began in the early 90s with a new constitution and led to the adoption of a new criminal code. The students, lawyers, and scholars we met in both Moscow and St. Petersburg all seemed to echo the same belief that Russia has "great laws" but simply suffers from "bad implementation." This paper will investigate this claim, analyzing what is meant by the idea that Russia has "great laws, bad implementation," laying out some of the issues with the Russian criminal justice transition and considering a few of the factors that might cause this impression or phenomenon. In the first section, this paper will provide general background on Russia's transition from communism to democracy, including the adoption of a new constitution and implementation of a new criminal code. The second section of this paper will describe the problems and failings of the Russian criminal justice system that lead scholars and lawyers to decry the code’s "bad implementation." Then finally, the third section outlines some of the potential contributing factors and causes of the problems described in section two. Details: Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Law School, International Immersion Program Paper, 2017. 17p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 20, 2019 at: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1065&context=international_immersion_program_papers Year: 2017 Country: Russia URL: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/international_immersion_program_papers/66/ Shelf Number: 154274 Keywords: Communism Criminal Justice Reform Legal Regim Post-Soviet Reform Russia Transition State |