Index to Soviet Law and Government,Vol. XIV (Summer 1975-Spring 1976)

Should the procurator exercise supervision over the correctness, and hence the legality, of the accounting and accountability of train traffic and the observance of train schedules? Unquestionably, yes. After all, [the failure to keep schedules] is nothing more nor less than a violation of state discipline. Particularly now, at a time when the task of accelerating the nation's socioeconomic development requires—as noted in the Guidelines for the Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1986-1990 and the Period Ending in 2000—improving the operation of railroads. And this is understandable since rail transport under the Twelfth Five-Year Plan will have to bring about a vast increase in carriage. The strict observance of state discipline is one of the main conditions for the attainment of these objectives. Any indulgence of violators instills them with a feeling of impunity and leads to more serious violations. All this inflicts material harm on the state and prevents the fulfillment of shipping plans.     

Subject Index to Soviet Law and Government,Vol. 11 (Summer 1963-Spring 1964)

The fact that the right to housing has now been elevated to the level of constitutional law is a noteworthy achievement of the Soviet system. In connection with this, improvement of housing legislation acquires special significance. I, a legal theorist, have had my interest drawn to the legal conditions for exchange of dwelling space, as presented by a concrete instance.     

Subject Index to Soviet Law and Government,Vol. I (Summer 1962-Spring 1963)

The proper utilization of the national supply of gasoline, the struggle against stealing and unbusinesslike dissipation of it, and the elimination of circumstances facilitating the foregoing are important in assuring the normal functioning of automotive transport.     

Index to Soviet Law and Government Vol. XXIV (Summer 1985-Spring 1986)

Nowadays, in the period of glasnost', any first-year student in a technical college knows that another revolution, this time an information revolution, began 10-15 years ago in the civilized world. For news of this to reach the USSR as well, a "fateful" speech by Academician E. P. Velikhov, in which he proclaimed a need for "universal computerization of education," was required. Touching pictures of first-year students confidently punching the keyboards of personal computers appeared on the pages of the central newspapers and a great deal was written in magazines about the necessity of organizing classes on information processing in "every normal school."     

IT and Law,and Law Schools

If 'computing and law' as a discipline is to push forward and develop, it will do so best within the context of the law school rather than as a joint enterprise between law and other disciplines. It is in the law school that the understanding of the nature of law is at its height. Yet there are problems here-law schools have a strained relationship with technology and their concept of the breadth of 'legal scholarship' can be limited by conventional (or ideologically-biased) views of law and an undergraduate-oriented view of the law school's purpose. There are also problems arising from the nature of communications between lawyers and computer scientists. In this article, I highlight these problems and also argue for a more developed and extended view of legal scholarship which will be able to incorporate study and research of the impact of the computer upon legal society as well as the legal control of the unwanted elements arising from these new technologies. Most writings on IT and the law school concentrate upon its use as an educational tool. My interest here is not so much in this side of things, but in the research culture of the law school. Whilst there is sometimes a view that the linkage of law school and IT is purely related to the use of technology in legal education, the remit is wider and includes the understanding of the link between substantive law and the context of the new computerized world and also the impact of the computer in the practice of law. This latter aspect is becoming increasingly important with the Woolf reforms and computerization of the procedural elements of law, but also in substantive law: for example, administrative systems are becoming more and more mediated by technology, and administrative law must be reviewed and re-worked in this context.     

美国版权法与字体、字型和字库

早在数字化时代以前，美国的立法、行政和司法机关已经形成共识，印刷字体或者字型属于实用品，不能获得版权保护。进入数字化时代以后，美国版权局延续这一思路，规定生成字体、字型和字库的计算机软件可以获得版权保护，但字体、字型和字库本身不能获得版权保护。到了1992年，美国版权局还修改《版权注册规则》，明确规定数字化的字体不能获得版权注册。     

证据法、诉讼法和实体法的关系？

我昨天给大家概述了证据法的许多基础性问题,这些问题是构建一部理性证据法所需考虑和安置的问题。今天,我将通过对证据法、诉讼法与实体法之间关系的考察,对昨天简要触及的一些问题做深入讲解。