No 3 (2012)

Processes of convergence of theoretical installations of liberalism and socialism in the neoliberal political and legal doctrine which appeared at the end of XIX — the beginning of the XX centuries are analyzed in the article. The author comes to a conclusion about possibility of the use of so-called «social liberalism» in modern Russian ideology.

The article deals with a little-studied actual issue of Constitutional Law in Russia characterized by a scientific novelty. In the absence of a clear regulatory consolidation of the objects of normative control and ambiguities with the criteria of a legal act, in practice there are difficulties with their appeal to the appropriate court, and as a result the process of forming a judicial constitutionalism in Russia faces difficulties. The analysis is based on historical documents, laws of foreign countries and the existing legal proposition of the Constitutional Court, which had a real impact on the formation of the institute of normative control in Russia.

The article examines the legal aspects of vesting the local government public powers in the social sphere. Author allocates particular order granting local governments with certain state powers in the Russian Federation on the basis of the current federal and regional legislation.

It is therefore difficult to predict the future of local government, particularly as the various factors shaping its destiny stem from various sources. Indeed, local authorities must respond to a range of shifting forces, including economic, demographic, social and technological change. While it is almost certainly the case that local government is today weaker than it was before, we would contend that it does not follow that local government is therefore less relevant. Indeed, the reform of local government.

The material is devoted the analysis of the reasons of occurrence of legal system of the European Community and its subsequent adaptation in the European Union. The basic attention is given to research of system of sources of the right of EU. Efficiency of modern integration process depends on unification of legal system of the European Union. As integration in the long term will lead to involving in this process more and more spheres of public life of EU member states.

The article investigates the features of legal problem of the consent in the legal regulation of approval or rejection of a potential donor in the event of his death to give their organs or tissue for transplant, enshrined in legislation in Russia, Germany, Argentina and Switzerland and some international acts.

The article investigates the regulatory structure of social relations in the field of sports. Identified approaches to defining the terms «sports law» and the «lex sportiva». The authors investigated the nature and the content of the lex sportiva, analyzed the characteristics and direction of the mutual influence of these systems of regulation.

The article discusses the history of the formation and juridical notion of the principle of peaceful settlement of international disputes as an imperative principle of international law. The role of the UN Security Council and international judicial institutions in ensuring international peace and security is shown. The features of peaceful settlement of international environmental disputes are analyzed.

The article analyzes investment disputes between host States and investors occurring from a breach of investment treaties. The author suggests that they can become a subject of intergovernmental dispute only by mutual agreement of the receiving State and the State of the investor. Further, the article shows that the current international agreements provide for mutual rights and obligations of investors and the investment decision as an object of international legal obligations. Violation of the rights and obligations of the host state’s investment may warrant of interstate dispute.