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The Operation of International Law in the Russian Legal System
A Changing Approach
Series: - Brill's Asian Law Series, Volume: 8
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This book addresses the increased role and standing of international law in the Russian legal system through analysis of judicial practice since the adoption of the Russian Constitution in 1993. The issue of interaction and hierarchy between international and domestic law within the Russian Federation is studied, combining theoretical, legal and institutional elements.
Sergey Marochkin explores how methods for incorporating and implementing international law (or reasons for failing to do so) have changed over time, influenced by internal and global policy. The final sections of the book are the most illustrative, examining how 'the rule of lawâ remains subordinate to âthe rule of politicsâ, both at the domestic and global level.
Sergey Marochkin explores how methods for incorporating and implementing international law (or reasons for failing to do so) have changed over time, influenced by internal and global policy. The final sections of the book are the most illustrative, examining how 'the rule of lawâ remains subordinate to âthe rule of politicsâ, both at the domestic and global level.
Sergey Yu. Marochkin, SJD (1998), Ural Law Academy (Ekaterinburg), is a Law Professor at the University of Tyumen. He has published monographs, articles and contributed chapters to textbooks and edited volumes on international law including Russia and the European Court of Human Rights (CUP, 2018). His 2011 monograph, Operation and Realization of International Law Norms in the Legal System of the Russian Federation, won the 2013 F.F. Martens Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
"Marochkin has produced an admirable treatise which will deserve the attention of international and comparative lawyers." - W.E. Butler, in: Journal of Comparative Law, XIV (2019)
"Being deep in content and possessing qualitative analysis of legal material, this book raises the bar for the research of the interrelation between international and domestic law to practically unattainable heights. Most importantly, this treatise introduces these developments to numerous English-speaking readers and aims to bring together a scattered and divided academical community." - Maksim Likhachev and Yury Bezborodov, in: Beijing Law Review, 2019, 10, pp. 474-479
"[This] Monograph of S. Marochkin draws up a new direction in modern legal science - the theory of the constitutional foundations of international law domestic implementation, expands the field of scientific knowledge of legal reality, enriches the theory of state and law, international, constitutional, civil, conflict law, legal science in general." - Prof. V.O. Luchin, Prof. T.M. Pryakhina
"Das Buch von Marochkin behandelt also ein in der Rechtswissenschaft (mit gutem Grund) ausgesprochen aktuelles Thema. Marochkin ist ein für den westlichen Leser ausgesprochen nützliches Buch gelungen. (â¦.) Für einen der russischen Sprache nicht mächtigen Juristen oder sonst an Russland interessierten Leser ist die Rezeption, Funktion und Wirkungsweise des Völkerrechts in Russland und im russischen Recht erschlieÃbar geworden." - Prof. Alexander Blankenagel, in: ZAORV 79, 2019, pp. 1038-1045
"The monograph ... allows the foreign reader to grasp the theoretical concepts, official positions, and actions of the Russian Federation in the implementation of its international obligations within the domestic legal system and the resulting scientific and practical problems." - Prof. W. Butler and Assistant Prof. V. Ivanenko, in: Pravovedenie 62/4 (2019), pp. 792â802
"We recommend this book to those who are interested in Russian legal science, behavior patterns of Russia in performing its international obligations and its attitude towards international law in general." - V. Gavrilov, R. Nurimbetov, in: Chinese Journal of International Law, issue 3 (2020)
"This book is a major development in academic thought on the application of international law to domestic legal systems and is a must-read for practitioners in domestic judicial organs or international institutions, scholars and young researchers." - Anna Kondratyuk, "The Operation of International Law in the Russian Legal System. A Changing Approach", in: Europe-Asia Studies 72:2 (2020), 336-337 [DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2020.1725295]
"Marochkinâs study on the role of international law in the Russian legal system, indeed, is an important and timely one, and is carried out â which is more relevant â in a competent manner and with impeccable scientific accuracy. " - Daniele Amoroso, in Italian Yearbook of International Law, Volume XXIX (2019)
"The monograph consistently exposes the author's idea about the essence of national implementation of the principles and norms of international law, domestic legal and institutional mechanisms for such implementation, assessment and generalization of the practice of Russian courts related to the appeal to international law and the application of international legal norms." - Kapustin A. Ya., Zhuravleva I.P., in: Moscow Journal of International Law 2020. No.1
"..a detailed and thus valuable source for all those who discovered their lust for Russiaâs approach towards international law amid Russiaâs increased assertiveness on the geopolitical stage." - Ralph Janik, in Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 46 (2021, pp 303-305)
"Being deep in content and possessing qualitative analysis of legal material, this book raises the bar for the research of the interrelation between international and domestic law to practically unattainable heights. Most importantly, this treatise introduces these developments to numerous English-speaking readers and aims to bring together a scattered and divided academical community." - Maksim Likhachev and Yury Bezborodov, in: Beijing Law Review, 2019, 10, pp. 474-479
"[This] Monograph of S. Marochkin draws up a new direction in modern legal science - the theory of the constitutional foundations of international law domestic implementation, expands the field of scientific knowledge of legal reality, enriches the theory of state and law, international, constitutional, civil, conflict law, legal science in general." - Prof. V.O. Luchin, Prof. T.M. Pryakhina
"Das Buch von Marochkin behandelt also ein in der Rechtswissenschaft (mit gutem Grund) ausgesprochen aktuelles Thema. Marochkin ist ein für den westlichen Leser ausgesprochen nützliches Buch gelungen. (â¦.) Für einen der russischen Sprache nicht mächtigen Juristen oder sonst an Russland interessierten Leser ist die Rezeption, Funktion und Wirkungsweise des Völkerrechts in Russland und im russischen Recht erschlieÃbar geworden." - Prof. Alexander Blankenagel, in: ZAORV 79, 2019, pp. 1038-1045
"The monograph ... allows the foreign reader to grasp the theoretical concepts, official positions, and actions of the Russian Federation in the implementation of its international obligations within the domestic legal system and the resulting scientific and practical problems." - Prof. W. Butler and Assistant Prof. V. Ivanenko, in: Pravovedenie 62/4 (2019), pp. 792â802
"We recommend this book to those who are interested in Russian legal science, behavior patterns of Russia in performing its international obligations and its attitude towards international law in general." - V. Gavrilov, R. Nurimbetov, in: Chinese Journal of International Law, issue 3 (2020)
"This book is a major development in academic thought on the application of international law to domestic legal systems and is a must-read for practitioners in domestic judicial organs or international institutions, scholars and young researchers." - Anna Kondratyuk, "The Operation of International Law in the Russian Legal System. A Changing Approach", in: Europe-Asia Studies 72:2 (2020), 336-337 [DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2020.1725295]
"Marochkinâs study on the role of international law in the Russian legal system, indeed, is an important and timely one, and is carried out â which is more relevant â in a competent manner and with impeccable scientific accuracy. " - Daniele Amoroso, in Italian Yearbook of International Law, Volume XXIX (2019)
"The monograph consistently exposes the author's idea about the essence of national implementation of the principles and norms of international law, domestic legal and institutional mechanisms for such implementation, assessment and generalization of the practice of Russian courts related to the appeal to international law and the application of international legal norms." - Kapustin A. Ya., Zhuravleva I.P., in: Moscow Journal of International Law 2020. No.1
"..a detailed and thus valuable source for all those who discovered their lust for Russiaâs approach towards international law amid Russiaâs increased assertiveness on the geopolitical stage." - Ralph Janik, in Review of Central and East European Law, Vol. 46 (2021, pp 303-305)
Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction
USR â2 From the 1991 Coup and the Collapse of the USR to the Adoption of the New Constitution of Russia â3 The 1993 RF Constitution and International Law 2 On the Concept of National and International Legal Systems â1 The Development of the Concept in the Legal Theory â2 On the Concept of a Legal System in the International Law Theory 3 The Capacity and Role of Norms of International Law in the Legal System of the Russian Federation â1 Preliminary Remarks â2 The Nature of International Law Norms in the Domestic Jurisdiction â3 Do Supporters of âTransformationâ and âDirect Applicationâ Hold Opposing Views? â4 Legislation â5 Doctrinal-and-Practical Commentaries â6 Some Conclusions 4 International Law Sources and Sources of Law of the Russian Federation â1 Reflection on the Issue in the Legal Theory â2 Legislation â3 Doctrinal-and-Practical Commentaries â4 International Law Doctrine about a Place of the International Law Sources in the Legal System of Russia â5 Some Results 5 Interaction between Legal Force of International and Russian Law Norms â1 Prerequisites of the Constitutional Provision Concerning the Hierarchy of Norms of International Law and Russian Law â2 Doctrine and Commentaries â3 Generally Recognized Principles and Norms of International Law or the RF Constitution and Legislation? â4 Which International Treaties Have Priority â5 Over Which Acts Do Treaties Have Priority? â6 Basic Rules for the Interaction between the Legal Force of Norms of International and Russian Law â7 Conclusions
Part 1: Norms and Sources of International Law in the Legal System of the Russian Federation
1 A Fleeting Glance Back â1 Prior to the Disintegration of thePart 2: Legal and Organizational Basics for Operation and Realization of International Law Norms in the Legal System of the Russian Federation
6 Legal Conditions for Operation and Realization â1 The Purpose and Meaning of Conditions â2 General Reference to International Law within Domestic Law â3 Consent to be Bound â4 Entry of a Treaty into Force â5 Publication of a Treaty â6 Obligation of a Treaty for Another Party â7 Additional Conditions 7 Types of Reference Rules and Their Impact on Operation and Realization of Norms of International Law â1 Function and Types of Reference Rules â2 Reference Rules on Limitations of Application of International Law Norms â3 Options and Schemes of Operation and Realization 8 Ensuring the Operation and Realization of International Law Norms at the Organizational Level â1 The Constitutional Bodies â2 Executive â3 Judicial Power â4 The Prosecutor Generalâs Office of the Russian Federation â5 Special Bodies â6 Conventional Bodies 9 Federal, Regional and Local Levels â1 Central Federal Authorities â2 Federal Agencies on the Regional Level â3 Bodies of State Power of the Subjects of the Russian Federation â4 Bodies of Local Self-GovernmentPart 3: Practical Aspects of the Operation and Realization of International Norms in the Legal System of the Russian Federation
10 Forms, Spheres, and Functions â1 Forms of Operation and Realization â2 Scope of Operation and Realization â3 Functions of the IL Rules in the Legal System of the Country â4 Refusal to Apply a Treaty â5 Treaties without Russian Participation 11 Self-executing and Non-self-executing Norms of IL â1 Development of the Issue in the Doctrine â2 Legislation and Its Doctrinal Commentaries â3 Reflection of the Issue in Judicial Practice â4 Attributes of Self-executing Norms, Arising from the International Treaties 12 On the Procedure (Methodology) of Applying International Treaty Norms 13 Other International Rules and Instruments in the Legal System of Russia â1 Generally Recognized Principles and Norms of IL â2 Recommendatory Acts, International Conferences Acts, Model Acts â3 Individual and Regulatory Decisions of International Bodies â4 Acts of the Bodies of Integration Institutions â5 Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights â6 Judgments of the ECtHR and the RF Constitutional Court: A Changing Indicator of the Russian Attitude Towards the Place and Role of International Obligations in the Domestic Legal System 14 The Issue under Study through the Prism of International and National Rule of Law Conclusion Name Index Subject Index
Academics, practicioners and all interested in the interaction between international and domestic law with focus on Russia.