Settling Disputes in Soviet Society : The Formative Years of Legal Institutions / John N. Hazard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hazard, John N., author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1960]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Tests by using Soviet data the thesis that man can settle his civil disputes with simplicity, without organized tribunals, legal representation, laws, rules of procedure, and evidence.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. Making a Beginning

2. Striving for Simplicity

3. Steps Toward Centralization

4. Seeking the Best of Both Worlds

5. Reconstruction

6. Crystallization of the Court Structure

7. The Watchman

8. Professionalizing the Bar

9. Procedure to the Fore

10. A Second Step in Procedural Reform

11 . Civil Procedure Caps the Climax

12. Refining Procedure in Practice

13. From Simplicity to Complexity and Formality

Bibliography

Table of Statutes and Orders

Table of Cases

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89033-8

OCLC:

1100434756