Origin of criminal law science at Moscow University

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of the origin of the science of criminal law at Lomonosov Moscow State University and the emergence of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Faculty of Law. The author restores data on the faculty teaching of criminal law and on the teaching staff of the Faculty of Law and the Department of Moral and Political Sciences. The article contains information about the scientific and pedagogical activities of professors Barsheva S. I., Goryushkina Z.A., Dilteya F.G., Desnitsky S.E., Malova M.Ya., Tsvetaeva L.A., Shteltsera Kh.Yu.L., their works are reviewed and their contribution to the development of domestic criminal law is revealed. According to the author, Professor Lev Alekseevich Tsvetaev, who considered many fundsmental theoretical problems of crime and punishment in his work "A brief Theory of Laws", should be considered the first Russian academic theorist of criminal law at Moscow University. The most prominent scientist of the criminal law science of the 19th century is also Professor Sergey Ivanovich Barshev, whose ideas have not lost their relevance at the present time (for example, the impossibility of criminal liability of corporations and analogies in criminal law, some recklessness crimes may be more important than intentional ones, etc.).

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