A new article "Current state and problems of the legal society: a view of attorneys"

A new article "Current state and problems of the legal society: a view of attorneys", written by IIMS director Andrei Yakovlev and ICSID junior research fellow Anton Kazun, appeared in the "Practice of Law" journal.

A new article "Current state and problems of the legal society: a view of attorneys", written by IIMS director Andrei Yakovlev and ICSID junior research fellow Anton Kazun, appeared in the "Practice of Law" journal.

The article concerns views of Russian advokats with regard to issues of professional ethics as well as their evaluation of frequency of violation of rights of defendants by representatives of low-enforcement agencies. The basis for analysis was the data of interrogation of advokats carried out in 2013 by by the Institute of Analysis of Enterprises and Markets of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" in combination with the "Association of Lawyers of Russia". The authors show that professional community of advokats constantly interacting judicial and law-enforcement systems could be important sourse of information on the state of inforesement for authorities and society.