Moscow University Law Bulletin. 2018. 2.

The article is devoted to the work of the student of the faculty of law of Kazan University L.N. Tolstoy about the “Nakaz” of Empress Catherine II. This work of the future famous Russian writer, which was set out in his diary for 1847, shows that he had undoubted ability to research in the field of law and could carry out at a fairly high level comparative analysis of legal texts. If he were serious about studying law, he would have undoubtedly become an outstanding legal scholar. But in this case Russia would lose one of its greatest novelists.

The article considers the development of ideas of academic criminalists about the need for solution of the issue regarding the history of criminalistics and its trends, which determined the development of historical processes of the creation, establishment and development of criminalistics as a science in the subject of its study. Simultaneously, is argued this necessity of resolving of this issue.

The article considers the judicial power as an integrating factor in the development and connecting of modern legal theory, law making and judicial practice. Specific examples of such problematic issues as unification of court proceedings, attribution of administrative offenses to a certain type of legal proceedings, problems of «administrative jurisdiction» and criminal offense show the negative consequences that arise when the theory, norm-setting and practice are inconsistent.

The article presents a brief analysis of the structure of the judiciary in Brazil, outlined by the 1988 Constitution, with a special emphasis on the criminal jurisdictional structure. First, we analyze the bodies that make up Brazilian justice system, its attributes and competences, and then the basic functions of justice. Also, the types of sanctions and rules for their application are considered. Finally, we examine criminal prosecution in Brazil, starting with a criminal investigation, types of arrest and prosecution, and ending with the latest changes introduced by the legislator into the Code of Criminal Procedure of Brazil.

Given the importance of the proper classification of the compositions of administrative offences for the purposes of law enforcement and the proportionality of administrative liability, the article examines the grounds for such classification and the system of compositions of administrative offences in tax legislation. According to the author, the approach to the classification of compositions of administrative offences in tax legislation, as set out in the article, allows both to eliminate significant gaps in the legal regulation of administrative liability and to ensure the proper codification of legislation on administrative offences.

The article is a biographical study devoted to the scientific and public activities of a famous Russian lawyer Fedor Mikhailovich Dmitriev (1829–1894). The article based on the archival and published sources allowing to research thoroughly the most interesting moments of Dmitriev’s biography.

This article is devoted to the analysis of the functions of the EFTA institutional system, the specifics of the development and decision-making within the framework of the EFTA, as well as issues related to the monitoring by the EFTA authorities for the implementation by EFTA countries of their obligations under the Vaduz Convention and the Single Economic Agreement Area.

Article covers the results of a sociological survey of the undergraduate students of Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University conducted in 2017. It depicts the key reasons for choosing the university and describes behavioral motives of prospective students in the educational services market. Article analyses the advantages of Faculty of Law of Lomonosov Moscow State University which are significant for prospective students and reveals the nearest competitors in the higher educational market.