{"id":10659,"date":"2025-05-29T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=10659"},"modified":"2025-11-03T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:31:11","slug":"law-in-a-lawless-state","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/winter-2022-23\/law-in-a-lawless-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Law in a Lawless State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Law in a Lawless State<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-b1648cf9 gb-headline-text\"><em>Features of Russia<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\">Lecture Series<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>In just 20 years, the Russian Federation has gone from a state with gradually consolidating institutions of democracy and civil society to an imitative model reminiscent of Soviet models still to be forgotten. This is not a unique case: since the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the collapse of the state has been faster and more tragic. But the era of Putin&#8217;s institutional degradation, despite its gradual nature, is comparable to the events of that time both in the scale of change and in the catastrophic consequences, including the Ukrainian war.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This series of lectures describes the most important features of this process, from the degradation of legal culture, constitutional foundations, and education to the destruction of freedom of speech, the independent judiciary, and the entire system of separation of powers. Imitation of elections, destruction of federalism, expansion of repressive apparatus, toughening of the penitentiary system, and increasing international isolation &#8211; these destructive phenomena are seen as facets of the general process of the largest country in the world rolling back into the authoritarian past. With predictable negative consequences both for Russia itself and for its neighbours.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/law-in-a-lawless-state-syllabus-syllabus-W22.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"Einbettung von law-in-a-lawless-state-syllabus-syllabus-W22.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-05507d10-418b-4136-9c5b-5dd4da24ad1d\" 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class=\"has-text-align-right\">20.10.22-16.02.23<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b8d7d00c\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-739a6fda\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-c4cc3766\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-c4cc3766\">\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Credits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-94e52802\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-94e52802\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">3<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-9c3909d0\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-408c2bcf\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-2c1ae340\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-2c1ae340\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Language<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-0019c195\"><div class=\"gb-container 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