Baturin Yu.M., Polubinskaya S.V.. “I do not know what is genius…” Peer review of A. E. Zhalinskii selected works in 4 volumes / comp. by K. A. Barysheva, O. L. Dubovik, I. N. Nagornaya, A. A. Popov; edited by O. L. Dubovik; National Research University “Higher School of Economics” – M.: Publisher of the Higher School of Economics, 2014-2016. // Law and Politics. – 2016. – № 10. – P. 1329-1335. DOI: 10.7256/1811-9018.2016.10.20570.
Review: This review on the 4 volumes edition of “Selected Works” of A. E. Zhalinskii describes the main fields of his research, many of which have had a significant impact on the theory of criminology, criminal law and comparative legal studies in in Russia. At first, the authors of the review offer the reader a short portrait of the personality of A. E. Zhalinskii, then the consecutive review of the volumes, and last but not least, general characteristics of all his scientific creativity and thinking as a whole.The edition includes the publications of different years, illustrating the author’s views, especially on social functions and methodology of criminology (vol. 1), goals and ways for criminal law’s updating (vol. 2), content and main tasks of criminal political science (vol. 3), legal profession and methodology of legal research (vol. 4). The scope of interests and encyclopedic knowledge allowed A. E. Zhalinskii to go beyond the boundaries of traditional legal studies and provide new directions for the development of national criminal law and criminology. The well-grounded criticism of the current state of the research in these fields and the proposed theoretical-instrumental approach as the tool for its renovation deserve attention from the professionals. The works of A. E. Zhalinskii on the links and interactions between criminal law and economics as well as on the role of criminal law in the system of the state control on economic activities are particularly interesting. The review noted the contribution of the author to modernization of legal education in Russia, especially, the development of a new academic discipline, describing the essence of legal profession. The publications of A. E. Zhalinskii on foreign criminal law and comparative studies are not ignored in the review. In the review the author appears as an original thinker and scholar, whose works are not tied to a specific period of time of its publication, but are methodological in nature.
Dubovik O.L.. Environmental protest movements in Germany. Peer review of: New Power of the Citizens / Edited by S. Marg, L. Gayges, F Butzlaff F. Walter. Issue: 1332 Volume. Bonn: Federal Agency for Civil Education, 2013. - 341 p. // Law and Politics. – 2015. – № 4. – P. 587-591. DOI: 10.7256/1811-9018.2015.4.13329.
Review: This review examines the methodology and results of the research on the protest movement of the German citizens. The environmental acts of protest in Germany are common and often influence the political and legal decisions made in this country. Protection of the environment is backed by a strong support from the citizens. The protests in Germany mostly aimed against various large-scale projects, laying transportation hubs, construction of environmentally unsafe objects, etc. The book describes the history of the forming of the protest movement, examines the value orientations of the activists, their motives and political positions. It reviews urban protests in Hamburg, Stuttgart and Munich, aimed at protecting the environment, including cultural, architectural and historical heritage. A special attention is given to the anti-nuclear movement that is widely supported throughout Germany and has reached great success.
Yuzhakov V.N.. Peer review of the monograph "Legal Models and Reality" // Law and Politics. – 2015. – № 3. – P. 429-430. DOI: 10.7256/1811-9018.2015.3.14441.
Review: This article present a peer review of the monograph “Legal Models and Reality” prepared by the members of the Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation, under the leadership of Professor, Doctor of Juridical Sciences, and a Merited Scientist of the Russian Federation Y. A. Tikhomirov. The monograph is dedicated to the research of the legal models as the forecasted versions of the optimal legal regulation of future legal events and processes that reflect the level of current legal order and the trend of its progression, stages and indexes of economic, social and political development. Posing the problem of legal modeling required solution of new theoretical and practical-scientific tasks – substantiation of the role of the leading legal effect nature, types and development of new legal models based on modern theories and concepts, determining factors and versions of real deviations and planned legal models, formulation of proposals on improvement of the process of implementation of legal models. The author of this review analyzes the entire “life” cycle of the legal model – from the conception of the legal idea to its realization. The author illuminates the obstacles in the way of materialization of law into an objective reality.