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The center's efforts are perhaps most timely in Russia, where the recent coup and collapse of communism has heightened the need for new criminal legislation, says Thayer Lecturer on Law Sarah Reynolds, who is directing the center's Russian activities.
Since last spring, Reynolds and her associates have been working with the Russian Federation's Ministry of Justice, establishing intensive working groups to examine different ways in which courts can be reformed and the power of the judiciary can be increased.
Reynolds says that although individual interests almost invariably enter the picture when legal or government institutions become involved in international advising, she feels the center has not succumbed to such pitfalls.
Reynolds says the Russian criminal code, which was originally passed in 1960 and which has not been changed much since then, "contains significant restrictions on speech and expression, and it is terribly vague all the way through, so it is open to much abuse in its interpretation."
The program is also aiming to create a Russian Institute of Law, designed to "raise the qualifications of legal standards" and retrain Russian lawyers who were schooled in the old and quickly changing system, Reynolds says.