- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
Fundamentals of Russian legal culture. Legal nihilism 2200-1CWPP12-OG
Main aims of the lectures are:
• providing core knowledge of the cultural identity of law;
• showing the relationship between legal traditions and legal content;
• educating students on basic information on the development of Russian law;
• presenting mutual dependencies between legal traditions and social and political systems;
• showing the main directions of development of Russian legal thought;
• presenting reasons for founding of sociology of law in Russia;
• considering the importance of its Marxist concepts for the Soviet legal thought;
• analyzing the factors blocking mimetic reforms of law;
• clarifying cultural sources leading to disrespect for the law
Type of course
optional courses
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
After learning, student:
• sees the law as a complex phenomenon which is conditioned socially and culturally;
• describes the basic elements of legal culture;
• characterizes legal tradition as element and dimension of culture;
• describes distinctness of Russian legal culture from the Western legal culture;
• indicates the basic factors which have affected on the difference of Russian legal tradition;
• describes the effects of cultural conflict resulting from the diversity of legal traditions;
• describes basic stages in the evolution of Russian legal tradition;
• characterizes the legal threads in the 19th century Russian social discourse;
• assesses the impact of the law on social and political life;
• distinguish general rights from individual privileges and can indicate examples;
• indicates the source of socio-legal conceptions in Russian legal thought;
• distinguishes Marxist an traditionally Russian influences in Soviet legal theories;
• describes a mechanism for the development of Soviet law in the first two decades of Soviet state;
• criticizes simplistic interpretations of Russian life and history.
Assessment criteria
Control of the presence and semestr paper.
Practical placement
None
Bibliography
Selected bibliography:
1. [zbior.], Semiotyka dziejów Rosji, Wydawnictwo Łódzkie, Łodź, 1993;
2. Nikolai A.Berdiajev, Istoki i smysl russkogo kommunizma, Nauka, Moskva, 1990;
3. James H.Billington, Ikona i topór. Historia kultury rosyjskiej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2008
4. Zbigniew Cywiński, Krytyka i ignorancja. Uwagi o krytykowaniu prawa i atakowaniu prawników, inspirowane listem Lwa Tołstoja O Prawie (wraz z tłumaczeniem Listu), w: Jan Majchrowski (red.naukowa), Państwo-prawo-polityka w przestrzeni konstytucyjnej. Warszawa, Liber 2007, s.101-118;
5. Zbigniew Cywiński, Między samoderžaviem a nihilizmem - rosyjskie dyskusje o państwie prawnym u zarania XX wieku, Kwartalnik prawa publicznego, Rok III, Nr 2/2003. s. 58 - 94;
6. Zbigniew Cywiński, Sprawiedliwość przeciwko prawu. Rosyjskie spory o prawo i sprawiedliwość, w: Jerzy Kwaśniewski [red. naukowy], Normatywność współczesnej Polski, Instytut Profilaktyki Społecznej i Resocjalizacji Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2005, s. 207 - 255;
7. Zbigniew Cywiński, U źródeł terroru: nihilizm prawny a wykluczenie prawne. Przypadek rosyjski, w: Idee naukowe Adama Podgóreckiego. Pod red. Jerzego Kwaśniewskiego i Jana Winczorka, PTS, IPSiR UW, Warszawa 2009, s. 261 – 284.
8. Hans Kelsen, The Communist Theory of Law, F. A. Praeger,
Inc, London, 1955;
9. Richard Pipes, Rosja carów, Wydawnictwo MAGNUM, Warszawa 2006;
10. Andris A. Plotnieks, Stanovlenie i razvitie marksistsko - leninskoi
obscei teorii prava v SSSR, 1917 - 1936 gg., Zinatne, Riga, 1978;
11. Andrzej Walicki, Filozofia prawa rosyjskiego liberalizmu, Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN, Warszawa1995;
12. Andrzej Walicki, Zarys myśli rosyjskiej od oświecenia do renesansu religijno filozoficznego, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagielońskiego, Kraków, 2005.
13. Alexander Vucinich, Social Thought in Tsarist Russia. The Quest for a General Science of Society, 1861 - 1917, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1976;
14. Vadim D.Zorkin, Pozitivistskaja teorija prava v Rossii, Izdatelstvo MGU, Moskva, 1978.
Additional information
Information on level of this course, year of study and semester when the course unit is delivered, types and amount of class hours - can be found in course structure diagrams of apropriate study programmes. This course is related to the following study programmes:
- Inter-faculty Studies in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Computer Science
- Bachelor's degree, first cycle programme, Mathematics
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Computer Science
- Master's degree, second cycle programme, Mathematics
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