Abstract: Starting from this issue of the journal, we begin publication of the materials on the newly developed Master’s Program of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University on «Material Law and Judicial Protection in Civil Cases». The program is presented with series of publications on special courses (disciplines) of the program, authors of this program develop the working programs for such disciplines. Special disciplines within the program relate either to material law or to the procedural block, which serve as a «specialization core» — a professional cycle of the program defining its contents and profile. The relation among the disciplines reflects the dominating basic vector of the program towards cognition and understanding by the students of the mutual influence and interdependence of material and procedural law in the sphere of civil judicial procedure through the object of study — civil cases. The specialization of the program reflects upon the inextricable connections between the civil (arbitration) procedural law and the branches of material law, such as civil, family, labor law, which are considerably connected to civil judicial procedure, and a large number of civil cases in these spheres are dealt with by the courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts based on the procedural and material legal norms.

Keywords: jurisprudence, Magister Program, specialized educational disciplines, civil cases, civil judicial procedure, civil (arbitration) procedural law, civil law, family law, labor law, the EU law.

Abstract: As a practical study shows, the modern society is currently facing a number of global problems, reflecting on vital interests of all the people. One of such problems is migration crisis, which has a considerable influence on all of the vital spheres and political, legal and economic processes in them. Migration of people is a natural pattern, so all of the migration processes follow some universal laws of social development, at the same time having some specific features depending on historical time and place. Today all of the states pay much attention to the improvement of migration policy, however, the objective reality requires the administrative efforts to be united in order to manage migration processes more efficiently, to more actively fight negative effects and consequences of unlawful and spontaneous migrations, etc. In order to find new efficient instruments and mechanisms for bringing the migration processes In Russia into certain order and to bring them within the vector of social and economic development, it is necessary to study specific features of formation and development of the Russian institution of limitations to the freedom of movement, choice of place of permanent and temporary residence. The article includes a retrospective analysis of formation of migration processes In Russia and the practice of legal regulation in this sphere.

Keywords: jurisprudence, legal regulation, migration processes, migration of people, migration legal order, Russia, migration policy, migration relations, freedom of movement, choice of place of permanent or temporary residence.

Abstract: At the current stage of development external labor migration is one of the key migration movements in various regions in the world. The specific features of migration processes in the post-Soviet territory is due first of all to the fact that at the time of earlier existence of a unified state, this migration was regarded as internal migration. Currently these are external migration processes among the CIS Member States within the framework of rather active migration exchange of people, including labor migrants, among the CIS Member States and other states. The analysis of specific features of economic, geopolitical and demographic conjuncture within this region allows the author to establish specific features of international legal regulation of the labor migration processes among the CIS Member States and to provide some recommendations on its improvement.

Keywords: jurisprudence, external labor migration, international legal regulation, the CIS, the illegal labor migration, legalization, protection of rights and freedoms of the migrant workers, the ILO Conventions, the Eurasian Economic Community, legal status of migrant workers, regional cooperation.

Abstract: In order to fight migration offences in the territory of Russian Federation, it is important to improve and Implement migration legislation in the sphere of migration processes regulation: immigration, emigration, forced migration, voluntary movement to the Russian Federation by the compatriots from abroad, labor migration and resettlement. Absence of permanent sources of income of illegal migrants serves as a key criminogenic factor, which influences the number of crimes by illegal migrants and supports the influx of illegal migrants into the ethnic criminal groups and mixed criminal groups, as comprised of persons from different states. In order to prevent social migration-related conflicts it is extremely important to curtail the number of illegal migrants outside of scope of government social policy, since illegal migration serves as breeding grounds for organized crime and international terrorist and extremist organizations. Based on the statistical data for 2012, the article includes analysis of theoretical legal characteristic features of modern illegal migration within the framework of administrative legal responsibility for the most typical offences in this sphere.

Keywords: jurisprudence, illegal migration, administrative offences, migration, legal responsibility, migration sphere, migrant workers, fighting, Federal Migration Service of Russia, security, migration legislation.

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problems of definition of economic criminal law as a sub-branch of criminal law. Based upon the analysis of history and comparative legal data, as well as its contents, the author proves that economic criminal law is a sub-branch of criminal, law, which is characterized by specific type of contents, including crimes in the sphere of economics under the Special Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and modification of generalized construction of elements of crime, attempted crime, co-participation and matters excluding criminality of act in the light of economic reality under the General Part of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The article is complemented by practical conclusions regarding recognition of existence of economic criminal law. In the point of view of the author economic criminal law inevitably presupposes specialization (deepening) of criminal law. The problem of formal limits to casual criminal law (the rule of full (complete) codification of criminal law) should also be resolved.

Keywords: jurisprudence, code, sub-branch, branch, crime, fault, subject, elements, mistake, res judicata.

Abstract: The article includes analysis of the existing legislative approaches to the use of negative elements as criteria for distinguishing various crimes. The author supports the position that it is not practical to use a popular legislative technique by formulating the distinguishing elements with the abstract reference to the absence of elements of other crime or group of crimes in the article of the Special Part of the Criminal Code. Such general references should be excluded from all of the articles of the Special Part of the Criminal Code, even when it is not possible to substitute it with positive or negative characteristic feature of the constituent elements of the particular crime. Due formulae should be applied by referring to specific elements distinguishing crimes with joint elements. Provisions for a specific element of a specific crime as a negative term Is acceptable on some conditions and with due application of rules of formal logic.

Keywords: jurisprudence, constituent elements of crime, distinguishing elements, related constituent elements of crimes, competition of norms of criminal law, distinguishing the elements of crimes, logical mistakes in defining terms, criminal legislation, criminal law qualification.

Abstract: The article contains brief description of the speeches by the participants of the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Legal Science and Its Value in the Modern Society», which was held in the Kutafin Moscow State Law University on April 11, 2013. The participants of the conference arrived from 9 constituent subjects of the Russian Federation. The foreign guests from neighboring states and other foreign states were also present at the conference. During the conference the following topical problems of modern legal science were established: demand for scientific studies by state institutions and society; interrelation between the general theory of state and law, and the branches of legal science; new vision of status and methodological role of theory of state and law, interrelation of its structural elements. Among other problems integration of legal systems and the arising need to further specify object and method of general theory of state and law, were discussed. The theses of the participants of the conference regarding integration among the legal sciences, and Issues of interaction of legal sciences with the other branches of scientific knowledge drew much attention. As a result of this conference specific practical and general theoretical propositions were formulated.

Keywords: jurisprudence, legal science, integration of sciences, development of science, theory of law, branches of science, crisis of science, understanding of law, legal globalization, legal practice, legal target-setting

Abstract: On May 2 and 4, 2013 in Kazakhstan the International Roundtable «Problems of fighting crime in the CIS states» (Eurasian National University named after L.N. Gumilev (Astana) and the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Modern criminal legislation: problems, tendencies and ways for modernization» (Humanitarian University of Transportation and Law named after D.A. Kynaev; Kazakhstan Criminological Association; the Scientific Center for the Crime Fighting Problems of the Department of Criminal Law, Process and Forensic Studies of the Kazakhstan National University named after Al-Farabi, Almaty) were held. They were devoted to the topical problems of drafting a new Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, which would correspond to the newest achievements of the criminal law science, international standards and requirements on fighting crime in the state. The scientists from Russia and Germany took part in the roundtable and the conference together with their colleagues from Kazakhstan.

Keywords: jurisprudence, Kazakhstan, international roundtable, international conference, drafting the Criminal Code, new concept of criminal law, crime, criminal offence.

Keywords: yurisprudentsiya, yuridicheskaya nauka, integratsiya nauk, razvitie nauki, teoriya prava, otraslevye nauki, krizis nauki, ponimanie prava, yuridicheskaya globalizatsiya, yuridicheskaya praktika, yuridicheskoe tselepolaganie.

Keywords: yurisprudentsiya, Kazakhstan, mezhdunarodnyi kruglyi stol, mezhdunarodnaya konferentsiya, razrabotka Ugolovnogo kodeksa, novaya kontseptsiya ugolovnogo zakona, prestuplenie, ugolovnyi prostupok.