Call for Papers pour un colloque prévu pour mai 2011 à Moscou et organisé par l'Institut historique allemand de Moscou et le Centre franco-russe en sciences humaines et sociales de Moscou (Juliette Cadiot, Sandra Dahlke, Tanja Penter, Michel Tissier)

The three-day workshop examines the importance and functioning of the law and justice in the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Russia has always seemed to possess a particular relationship between the law, the state and society. The political legitimacy of law is weakly developed and always under threat from state intervention. In the past, the legal and judicial history of Russia has, therefore, often been interpreted as a deviation from the ideal type of European legal development. Judged in terms of modernisation theories it seemed to be incomplete. The question of Russia's ability to integrate into a
pan-European legal culture became topical following the collapse of the Soviet Union and has recently been discussed again in connection with the trial of Khodorkovskii. The workshop organisers hope to break free of this normative approach, placing instead the history of Russian law in its political, cultural and social contexts and thereby reveal long-term continuities as well as changes in its development over the centuries. This focus on the cultural and social history of law and justice as well as an examination of individual and group experience will offer the opportunity to supplement and perhaps to re-evaluate the findings of the history of legal thought and the institutional history of the judicial system.

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