Andrey Evgenievich Sherstobitov

Golubtsov V. G. The Russian Federation as a subject of civil law. - M.: Statute, 2019. - 272 p.

The review is devoted to the publication in 2021 in the publishing house “Statute” of the sixth volume of the Code of Justinian, which is regarded as a great event in the field of legal science and education. The review gives a high positive assessment of the presented work, the appearance of which indicates the opportunity to study the rich heritage of Roman legal thought more deeply and comprehensively, both for beginners in the study of civil law, and for those who are wise in the knowledge and experience of representatives of the science of civil law.

The article is devoted to determining the place of consumer law in the system of Russian law and in the system of Russian legislation. Having formed in Russian civil law initially as a functional institution of civil law protection of consumer rights, it later, together with the norms of branches of public law, forms an intersectoral institute of Russian law, and under the influence of codified civil legislation, especially due to the reform of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, as well as the improvement of legislation on consumer protection and the practice of its application, occupies the place of a functional sub-branch in the structure of modern civil law. For more than thirty years, consumer law has also been formed as a complex branch of legislation, including normative acts containing norms of various branches of Russian law. Consumer law (consumer protection legislation) is characterized by a number of features (it includes numerous regulations of various hierarchical levels and combines legal regulation contained in codified civil legislation and special acts on consumer protection). This, on the one hand, seems to be a very progressive phenomenon, since the civil law regulation of contractual relations with the participation of consumers is elevated to the level of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, and, on the other hand, this is done in part two of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, as well as in certain federal laws, is often inconsistent or insufficiently successful.

The article analyzes the problems of the formation, revival and development of private law at Moscow University. The authors identify three main historical stages in the domestic legal system that private law (civil law) science has passed through and represent them: the pre-revolutionary stage (the stage of formation of private law in Russia); the Soviet period, in which, in the absence of private law, civil law proper and the corresponding civil law, civil law science developed; the post-Soviet stage, in which the restoration of private law and its further development took place, combining both classical private law concepts and modern approaches. The emphasis is on the fact that the teachers of Moscow University and its Department of Civil Law have consistently sought to solve a two-pronged task: to obtain new scientific knowledge in the field of private law through its in-depth scientific study and their subsequent transfer to students by giving university education a fundamental scientific character. Roman private law replaces the general theory of civil law with such a formulation of civil law education, therefore, at Moscow University, the teaching of civil law was initially combined with the teaching of Roman private law. Throughout history, the study and teaching of Roman law by the civilists of Moscow University has been and remains their “trademark”. The authors emphasize that the participation of teachers of the department in legislative work and law enforcement practice turned out to be extremely useful and had a beneficial effect both on the teaching of civil (private) law and on its scientific research, which contributed to the development of domestic civil law on a private legal basis. Currently, the department implements major scientific and educational projects, therefore, there is every reason to assert that the modern staff of the Department of Civil Law of Moscow University has not only preserved the best traditions of fundamental university education and scientific research in the field of civics, laid down by remarkable Russian civilists and novelists back in the XIX century, but also actively contributed to the revival and development of domestic private law rights in the field of legislation, doctrine and teaching.