Role of the Ministry of Justice in Improvement of Judicial System of National Suburbs Russian Empire (end of XIX century – 1914)

Былые годы. 2020. Т. 55. № 1. С. 162–171.

Michael B. Averin, Nikitin P., Popova A.

The study of the activities of the Central Department of justice of the Russian Empire to improve the judicial system of the national suburbs allows you to get a more detailed idea of the relationship of the General Imperial legal norms with various local legal provisions, to trace the adaptation of national judicial institutions to local conditions. In addition, the article aims to identify essential principles the outskirts of the judicial policy of the authorities, as well as the influence of local conditions on their adjustment in the implementation process in these regions, therefore, generalization of experience of application of advanced legal institutions in difficult conditions in the periphery of Imperial territory is the subject of this article.
In the study the authors come to the conclusion that the General policy of the government in the process of modernization of the Russian Empire in the national outskirts of the period under review was the desire to unify local institutions, including the judiciary, with national institutions. However, the Ministry of justice, responsible for the administration of justice almost throughout the Empire, had to take into account all the expected consequences in carrying out judicial reforms and addressing the identified shortcomings of the judicial system in the national suburbs.

Keywords: судебная реформа, судебное разбирательство, judicial reform, международные суды, Министерство юстиции, Ministry of justice, national suburbs, law of judicial administration, people's courts, gminas courts, justices of the peace, национальные пригороды