subject: General History of State and Law [print this page] Curriculum subject "General History of State and Law" ("History of State and Law of foreign countries") is about 60 years is the mandatory part of the general legal education in Russia. Over the decades, has developed its own special tradition of building the course, their academic and professional of his task. It is recognized that it is the General History of State and Law plays a major role in acquainting future lawyers with the traditions and experience of the world political and legal culture and legal knowledge.
The proposed textbook written in accordance with a significantly updated program of the policies of the General History of State and Law ". Features of this update, the release rate of not his usual socio-economic and socio-political perspectives were opened in connection with the overall renovation of humanitarian thought in the new Russia and the release of high school teaching from a global state control. At the heart of the textbook - lecture courses taught over the years in several specialized higher educational establishments of Moscow. In order to make practically useful textbook for the widest possible student audience, the book kept in the main-cultural scheme. However, introduced complex, problematic issues that span several or many countries and peoples, which deals with the European or world history significant events of state and law. Only such an approach in perspective can create a truly universal history of law and statehood. Problem-course construction is especially important in connection with problems of legal education, including the need for comparative historical coverage of state forms and legal institutions of different nations. The special importance of this has been repeatedly emphasized in the recommendations of international legal bodies to develop truly modern and internationally significant legal education. In keeping with this latter circumstance, in this tutorial, we used the experience of building the course "History of institutions" and "General History of Law, taught in the major European countries as part of legal education (as fully analogous Universal History of the State and the right course of Western education does not know).
