Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Dimensions of Popular Legal Culture in Contemporary Europe / William L. Miller -- The Quality of Administrative Law: An Inventory of the Russian Federation and Ukraine / Oesten Baller -- Informal Practice in the Judiciary: A Comparison of East Central Europe, South East Europe and the West Balkans / Åse B. Grødeland -- Police Corruption and Misconduct in Central and Eastern Europe / Leslie Holmes -- Two Faces of the Law: A Realistic Approach to the Role of Law in Corruptive Settings / Nikolay Nayden -- Corporate Social Responsibility and the Russian Forest Sector / Anna-Maija Matilainen and Minna Pappila -- Judicial Review in the Russian Supreme Court and Constitutional Court: Struggling for Jurisdictional Powers Instead of Protecting Human Rights / Kirill Koroteev -- Property Rights under Socialist Civil Law: Looking Back to the Twentieth Century / Murray Raff and Anna Taitslin -- The Genesis of Czechoslovakism: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into the Influence of Rousseau’s Réligion Civile / Josette Baer -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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This volume offers readers a multi-layer analysis of issues of law and society in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine. This collection of thought-provoking essays deals with a wide range of subject matter including constitutional, administrative, civil, and criminal law, as well as aspects of legal culture, corruption, corporate social responsibility, and informal practices of judiciaries. Throughout the volume, readers are given not only a comparative perspective of current practices but are also offered a historical glimpse of law and philosophy in the region. The conclusions and analysis offered by these authors - from the ''East'\' as well as from the ''West'' - are supported by survey data, literature, legislation, and court practice in the region and abroad.