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. -- Eugene Huskey, Stetson University, USA * Europe-Asia Studies *