party committees in first place. abolition of private property, thus near total collectivization and nationalization of the means of production; subordination of the judiciary to the Communist Party low respect for intellectual property as knowledge and culture was considered a right for human kind, and not a privilege as in the free market economies. A specific institution characteristic to Socialist law was the so-called burlaw court (or, verbally, "court of comrades", Russian товарищеский суд) which decided on minor offences. See also General Legal systems of the world Cuba Cuban legal system Cuban law Soviet Union Law of the Soviet Union Ministry of Justice of the USSR Procurator General of the USSR Review of Central and East European Law, formerly known as the Review of Socialist Law Notes Further reading Partlett, W & E. Ip, Is Socialist Law Really Dead? 48 NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 463 (2016). Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2660098. Legal codes Legal systems