Table of Contents

The Emancipation of Soviet Law: A Foreword. I: General Questions. New Legal Thinking in the Soviet Union. The Romanist Character of Soviet Law. What makes Socialist Law Socialist? -- The Chinese Case. II: Reforming the Economy. The Contract of Independent Work (Podriad) at the State Enterprise. Choice of Law and Joint Ventures in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Lawyers and Perestroika. The Role of the Jurisconsult in the Soviet State Enterprise in the Light of the Economic Reforms. Soviet Foreign Trade Law as seen from the United States. Private Economic Activity in Poland. III: Administrative and Criminal Law Reform. Perestroika and Developments in Soviet Criminal Law. Rebuilding Soviet Criminal Procedure. Legislation on Administrative Procedure in Czechoslovakia and in the Soviet Union. Special Procedures in Soviet Administrative and Criminal Law. Recent Developments in Party Control over the Courts and the Procuracy. Legal Rights of the Handicapped in the USSR. Index.