Moscow University Law Bulletin. 2018. 4.

Legal custom is not an accepted source of law in environmental law and legislation, as in the whole system of Russian law and legislation. All the few direct indications of this source of law in the regulation of environmental relations are analyzed in the article. Part of the cases of application of customs in the regulation of use of natural resources and environmental protection is due to the availability of authorization of the application of this source of law in related sectors of legislation.

The article is devoted to classifying, by grounds and types, administrative enforcement measures for violations of tax legislation. The analysis of the system of these measures is constructed taking account of their purposes and the grounds for applying them, the method for them to secure the administration of justice, and the content of the measures in question. This has allowed the author to identify shortcomings both in the legal regulation and in the practice of applying administrative enforcement measures for violations of tax legislation, as well as to devise and propose in the article methods for solving the above problems

The question of expediency of carrying out of new reform at the level of local self-government is considered in the article with the purpose of determination of local municipal and local state levels of public authority and governance and delimitation of functions and powers between bodies and officials of state power and bodies and officials of local self-government.

This article attempts to trace the evolution of development in Russian criminal law of institute of inducement and assistance to suicide in the first days of its formation to the present day.

The article concerns key theoretical and practical issues regarding the institution of hereditary foundation implemented in Russian law. The author outlines the issues of legal form, establishment and business goals of the hereditary foundation.

In the present article, the author considers the theoretical and legal basis for the evolutionary interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 1950 applied by the European Court of Human Rights. Controversies surrounding the issue challenges us to examine arguments in favour and against legitimacy of an evolutionary interpretation. The author concludes that evolutionary interpretation has been based largely on the object and purpose of the Convention established in its Preamble and Art. 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties.

After the financial crisis in 2008, the US and EU have taken significant measures in regulating the OTC derivatives. This Article provides a comparative analysis of the OTC derivatives legal regime in the US and EU. The author concludes that the EU approach is more conforming to its purpose and more comprehensive.

The article is devoted to the improvement of the criminal legislation of the Russian Federation with regard to the regulation of compulsory educational measures. The author proposes to abandon the term «compulsory» in the name of measures, shifting the emphasis towards the upbringing and resocialization of a minor who has committed a generally dangerous act. When developing a system of educational measures, it is proposed to introduce the principle of criminal non-liability of minors. A new system of educational measures has been developed taking into account the allocation of three age groups of minors.

The article is devoted to problems of responsibility for placing negative and illegal information on the Internet. The author raises issues of legal definition of the information content of the site on the Internet, as well as the list of illegal information. On the example of foreign experience the author justifies the need of using the notion “content” in relation to information placed on the Internet (site, blog, forum, social networks, etc.). Based on the analysis of foreign and domestic legislation in the field of computer information and existing classifications of the main types of «content», the author suggests classification of “contents”, and also offers lists of information that can be referred as “illegal content”.