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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's culture, especially her legal system, is still in the transition stage, Ralph J. Berman, visiting professor of law, told his Law School Forum audience last night. In the second of a series of three lectures on the "Spirit of Soviet Law," Berman concentrated on the Marxian element in USSR jurisprudence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berman Tells Forum Soviet Law Is Still Changing Shape | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...line with Marxian theory, Berman said, the Russians tried to do away with law until well in the 1930's in hopes that law would not be necessary. In 1936 the Soviets realized, he went on, that the state would not wither away, and a legal system was demanded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berman Tells Forum Soviet Law Is Still Changing Shape | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

...Soviets borrowed extensively from British, French, Swiss, and German law in formulating their own legal code, Berman continued. Therefore Soviet law curiously contains bourgeois terms such as contract and inheritance, even though its nature is decidedly socialistic. It does not bother with individual rights but has been set up as a means to administer the socialistic plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berman Tells Forum Soviet Law Is Still Changing Shape | 12/10/1948 | See Source »

Leaders of the Soviet legal profession assert that their law is "essentially different from all types of law known for history." To determine whether or not Soviet law is of a new type and if no, where the novelty lies is an difficult task because of the relative youth of the Russian legal system, Professor Berman pointed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviets Have New Type of Law---Berman | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

According to Berman, Soviet law in a curious mixture of Greek Orthodox doctrines, eastern legal customs, and western common law. It was not formulated until the 1930's and is still undergoing development, the observed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviets Have New Type of Law---Berman | 12/8/1948 | See Source »

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