The Russian legal system in comparative perspective / Gordon B Smith -- Sources of Russian law / Jane Henderson -- The constitutional foundations of the Russian state / Jane Henderson -- The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation / Kirill Koroteev -- Russian attitudes to public international law / Bill Bowring -- The judicial system of the Russian Federation / Kathryn Hendley -- Legal profession and education in Russia / Ekaterina Khodzhaeva and Kirill Titaev -- Russian civil law : contract law / Lorenzo Sasso -- Russian civil law : commercial law / Lorenzo Sasso -- Russian civil law : dispute resolution in commercial law / Lorenzo Sasso -- Labour law / Oleg Bresky -- Gender in family law / Marianna Muravyeva, Larisa Shpakovskaya and Zhanna Chernova -- Administrative law and procedure / Anna-Liisa Heusala and Kirill Koroteev -- Criminal law and procedure / Gennady Esakov