Doctoral Dissertation Research: Law in a Post-Soviet Society

本项目将通过研究这些逻辑如何在法律的诉讼程序的背景下相互碰撞，来考察在后苏联社会主义国家中什么是法律的观念与指导日常生活的法律的实践之间的脱节。虽然法律的体系致力于塑造一个坚持特定社会主义意识形态的国家和公民，但日常的法律的实践仍然涉及熟悉的责任概念。在任何一种情况下，法律的官员的决定都可以说明国家观念和日常法律的生活之间的紧张关系。 本研究透过在一个市法院、一家律师事务所、以及从事日常生活活动的家庭中的参与者观察与访谈，试图回答：（1）法律的系统中的参与者如何成为法官、律师与诉讼当事人？在他们处理每一个法律的案件时，调和对国家和日常生活的理解之间的脱节;（2）他们的做法可能产生什么后果。 这些问题合在一起，有助于我们理解，通过解决案件的努力，法律的体系的参与者可能会无意中重塑当代后苏联社会主义国家公民的意义。 这项研究将代表在当代后苏联国家的法律的第一个持续的民族志研究之一，可以有助于法律，民族和国家之间的复杂关系的研究。 此外，它有可能通过邀请很少听到的声音来扩大法律和社会科学领域的对话？尤其是那些后苏联国家的法律的专业人士？可以分享社会主义法律的制度的独特经验。

This project will examine the disjuncture between the ideas about what law is in a post-Soviet socialist state and the legal practices guiding everyday life by examining how these logics run up against each other in the context of legal proceedings. While the legal system is dedicated to shaping a nation and a citizenry that adheres to a particular socialist ideology, everyday legal practices still attend to familiar concepts of responsibility. In any one case, legal officials' decisions can illuminate tensions between the state's ideas and everyday legal life. Through participant observation and interviews in a municipal court, a law office, and amongst families undertaking activities of daily living, this research seeks to answer: (1) how participants in the legal system judges, lawyers, and litigants?reconcile the disjuncture between the understandings of the state and everyday life as they navigate each legal case; and (2) what the consequences of their practices might be. Taken together these questions help us to understand how, through their attempts to resolve cases, the participants in the legal system may perhaps unwittingly reshape the contours of what it means to be a citizen in a contemporary post-Soviet socialist state. This research will represent one of the first sustained ethnographic studies of law in a contemporary post-Soviet state and can contribute to studies of the complex relationships between the law, the nation, and the state. Further, it has the potential to broaden the conversation within the fields of law and social science by inviting seldom-heard voices?specifically those of legal professionals in a post-Soviet state?that can share the unique experiences of a socialist legal system.