Actual Problems of Foreign Law Literature Distribution
Reporter: Evgeniy Novikov,Head of the St. Petersburg State University Law Press, the Chair of Civil Procedure of the Saint-Petersburg State University.
Points of the Report
1. Defining the subject of the report – contents of the report.
2. What is it all for? Information. Receiving and adopting of the information.
3. Purposes of the legal information. Who is the owner? Shall it be opened to anyone who is interested in or it shall be available only for particular corporate cell? Advantages and disadvantages. Experience of different countries.
4. Who is interested in foreign legal information distribution? Society or the individual? Democracy. International affairs, cooperation and increase of interest in the foreign practice. Globalization. Government policy and need of foreign experience. Necessity of the effective and diversified development of legal science and practice.
5. Methods and ways of searching and getting of foreign legal information:
- Newspapers, journals, books, radio, television, electronic texts;
- Internet, news stalls, libraries, bookshops.
6. Matters of availability of different sources of foreign legal information.
7. Methods to solve each of the problems.
8. Future trends of foreign law literature distribution in Russia and the world.