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Series 14

LAW.

Issue 1, 2014

CONTENTS

Section THEORY AND HISTORY OF LAW
Page 18-32
Title THE MODALITY OF THE DUTY: RATIO DECIDENDI OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE RUSSIA LEGAL SYSTEM
Author 1 Volfson Vladimir Leonovich Institute of Management of St. Petersburg University of Economics
191002, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
candidate of legal sciences, associate professor
e-mail: vwolfson@mail.ru
Summary Since Russia�s adhesion to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, with a concomitant recognition of the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights to give binding interpretation of the Convention in judgments of cases to which Russia is a party, the nation�s legal science has remained in dispute over the rank that the �jurisprudence� of the European Court thereby attained in the hierarchy of Russian law sources. An outcome of the discussion, as discovered by the author of this article, may offer ironically little practical value, but may have significant power to cope with urgent theoretical challenges which the Russian legal doctrine faces today and which determine its development in the coming decades.
Keywords The European Convention on Human Rights, European Court on Human Rights, case law, legal view, delegation of law-making authority, commonly recognized rules and principles of international law.