Abstract
This study analyzes the works of scientists who defended their theses on criminal law at the universities of the Russian Empire. The chronological scope of the research is limited by the date of defense of the first and the last theses on criminal law which are known to the authors. The territorial scope of this article covers the limits of the Russian Empire.
Highlights
The relevance of the paper is that in modern legal science there is no generalizing research on criminal law in the master's and doctoral theses of universities of the Russian Empire
Yakushev [5], as well as the Russian State Library [6], it became clear that only 80 candidates out of 590 people who received master and doctoral degrees of laws, defended their theses on criminal law
Among 90 already mentioned dissertation research on criminal law, 58 (64%) master's theses and 32 (36%) doctoral dissertations were defended at the Faculties of Law in the Russian Empire
Summary
The relevance of the paper is that in modern legal science there is no generalizing research on criminal law in the master's and doctoral theses of universities of the Russian Empire. It should be noted that one of the authors of this article [1], as well as A.D. Makiev [2] studied some issues of crime and punishment in the dissertation research in universities of the Russian Empire. When studying catalogs of master's theses and doctoral dissertations defended in Russia, prepared by G.G. Krichevsky [4], A.N. Yakushev [5], as well as the Russian State Library [6], it became clear that only 80 candidates out of 590 people who received master and doctoral degrees of laws, defended their theses on criminal law. Yakushev [5], as well as the Russian State Library [6], it became clear that only 80 candidates out of 590 people who received master and doctoral degrees of laws, defended their theses on criminal law It is about 14% of the total number of persons who got academic degrees for the period from 1814 to 1918. Numerical variation can be explained by the fact that some applicants defended their doctoral dissertation after receiving a master's degree and it took place after a certain period of time
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