LAW AND SOCIETY
Legal Wounds: Deconstruction of Gay and Lesbian Rights in the Russian LegalšDiscourse
(2011)
This research concerns the study of the rights of gays and lesbians in Russia. Decisive role in this process is played by forces that govern modern legal discourse. The researcher will answer the question of how human actors themselves understand their legal status: what rights they have, how much those rights are valuable to them. An attempt to interpret the discursive truths will be based on articulated data, as well as on the unspoken ideas that shape the discourse on rights and, ultimately, constitutes the subjective reality of the research objects. The empirical material will be collected in two ways: by organizingš discussions in focus groups and by depth interviews (life histories). All data will be anonymised to maintain confidentiality.
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Project participants from CISR: Aleksander Kondakov
The project is supported by: Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Advancement of Access to Justice for Disadvantaged Population Groups of the Russian Federation
(2009-2010)
Partners: ANNO Institute of Rights and Public Politics (Moscow).
The goal of this project is to increase access to justice and attract attention to the needs of some of the least well-off and socially vulnerable population groups in Russian regions taking part - Permskii Krai and Leningradskaya Oblast. The project's objectives include: a boost in the availability of justice for disadvantaged and socially unprotected groups, the optimization of relations between the courts and disadvantaged participants in judicial proceedings and the development of local potential for the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents.
Project participants from CISR: Victor Voronkov, Lyubov Ezhova.
Project supported by the Japanese Foundation for Social Development through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
Problems of Modern Legal Education in St. Petersburg
(2009)
Project leader: Elena Bogdanova.
The idea to conduct this project came up during CISR's collaboration with the Institute of Rights named after Prince Oldenburgskii. Research was conducted in institutions of higher education in St. Petersburg with the goal to reconstruct a picture of the transforming legal education within a complex of mutual connections, opinions and evaluations. The project was carried out mostly by qualitative methods and consisted of three separate parts: discourse-analysis of the websites of legal higher education institutes and relevant departments in St. Petersburg, semi-structured interviews with experts responsible for the organization of the educational process in legal institutes / departments, and a survey of graduate students in four legal institutes in St. Petersburg.
Researchers: Elena Bogdanova, Olga Tkach.
Project supported by the Foundation for the Development of Clinical Legal Education and the Ford Foundation.
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