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The Federal State Principle in Russia and its Erosion by the Constitutional Reform of 2020: Since its entering into force, the Constitution of the Russian Federation has been resilient to major changes, aside from minor amendments as a result of...

With the advent of the new decade, the possibility of applying digital tools in certain fields of law is increasingly being explored in a range of legal publications. Particular attention is paid to those fields of law, which are based on an...

In Russia, the 2014 enactment of a concept of a State family policy for the period until 2025 has been accompanied by a process of enshrining traditional values as a foundation for family policy. Recent reforms have recognised at constitutional...

The first modern draft of a Russian criminal code, the so-called “Criminal Codes for the Russian Empire” of 1813, was written by German philosopher, political scientist and economist Ludwig Heinrich v. Jakob (1759-1827), who was a member of...

The question of maternity has been a non-controversial one ever since - the woman who gave birth to a child is considered to be the child’s legal mother. This view has become controversial though with increasing progress of reproductive medicine....

The family law provisions of the Hungarian Civil Code have been subject to several amendments since their entry into force in March 2014. The amendments are notable because of their effect on judicial practice or legal doctrine. This paper provides...

The issue of the beneficiaries of the right to marry under the Romanian legal framework on same-sex relationships and of those seeking to invoke in Romania the effects of a marriage entered into abroad is a modern day challenge in system that...

The issue of recognising the effects of gender affirmation is a controversial subject that the European Court of Human Rights often faces as a result of States’ reluctance in addressing such matter. This paper analyses the recent judgment of the...

The authors of the article have analyzed the history of environmental legislation in the Russian Federation as a comprehensive industry, including laws on natural resources and nature conservation, the development of this branch as an independent...

The analyzed thirty years of development of environmental law begin with the economic transformation of the country. This article treats this topic as a point of reference. In the first part of the article, the development of environmental law in...

After 40 years of a totalitarian regime, the state of the environment in Czechoslovakia was catastrophic. The revolutions that swept through Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in 1989/1990, including Czechoslovakia, sparked enthusiastic hopes for a...

Until 1990, Hungary’s environmental legislation had been broadly incomprehensive. Since then, several laws and judicial decisions were passed, and scholarly literature on this topic exists in abundance. However, as yet, there is no exhaustive...

This article provides an overview of the formation and development of environmental law in Ukraine. The review covers the period from the early 90 s of the 20th century to the present days. The paper reveals the essence and the significance of the...

In 2019 European Commission announced “The European Green Deal” a “a new growth strategy that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy where there are no net...

A proper and highly professional scholarly and practical training of judges is one of the fundamental guarantees of the functioning of the modern state. This article begins with an introduction of general selection criteria for future judges, and...

The category of abstract-danger crimes not referring in hallmarks to the riskiness for legal good raises the question whether behavior formally fulfilling all the features of one of these types of crimes, without being risky, may be the subject of...