A collection of articles by scholars in the law departments of state universities in Krasnodar devoted to the improvement of a wide spectrum of Russian law and judicial practice. The articles cover such topics as the standard-setting role of judicial practice in law-making; judicial law-making in England and Australia (doctrinal foundations); the study of torts in administrative law; migration policy in Russia; administrative responsibility of corporations; the legal nature of determining a court of the first instance; liability of corporations for soil contamination; privately run prisons in the U.S.