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Postgraduate study in Laws:

Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Course outline (date of availability to be confirmed)

Russian civil and commercial law
Section A: Foundations of Russian civil law
· Introduction
· Concepts of private and public law
· Scope of civil and commercial law
· Sources of civil law
· Civil-law relations
· Civil rights and duties
· Transactions and representation
Section B: Russian civil law - persons
· Natural persons
· Concepts of juridical persons
· Legal entities under Russian civil law
· Economic societies and partnerships
· Unitary enterprises
· Non-commercial organisations and cooperatives
Section C: Russian civil law - ownership
· General provisions
· Private and public ownership
· Common ownership
· Limited rights to thing
· Attributes of state ownership
· Securities
Section D: Russian civil law - obligations
· General provisions
· Concepts of contract
· Individual types of contract
· Delictual obligations
· Unfounded enrichment
Sequence:
Section A, followed by Section B.

Textbooks:
 

William E. Butler, Russian Law 2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003),
ISBN: 9780199254002

William E. Butler, Russian Company and Commercial Legislation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), ISBN: 09780199261529

William E. Butler, Civil Code of the Russian Federation: Parts One, Two and Three (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), ISBN: 9780199261536