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  • Policy memo: "Russian regulation in 2021 the return to everyday life or new perspective?" (R. Kuchakov, D. Skougarevskiy)

    2021-12-22
    Dmitrij Skugarevskij, Ruslan Kuchakov
    Quantitative legal studies, Regulation Studies

    This report summarizes the annual federal agencies’ regulatory activity. We analyzed 550k inspections to highlight trends in Russian regulation in 2021. Full text (in Russia)

  • Policy Memo: “Legal Norms on Forced Breach of Contract (Force Majeure): a study of enforcement by State Commercial Courts” D.Saveliev, D.Skougarevskiy

    2021-12-13
    Denis Savel'ev, Dmitrij Skugarevskij
    Quantitative legal studies, Regulation Studies

    In a new policy memo titled “Legal Norms on Forced Breach of Contract (Force Majeure): a study of enforcement by State Commercial Courts” IRL researchers study how Russian commercial courts tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. We found 4161 cases considering this issue of non-performance due to force majeure from the universe of all rulings in March 2020 — October 2021. We then focused our analysis on cases related to the impossibility of fulfilling obligations under loan and credit agreements in disputes with banks, as well as in disputes of organizations affected by the pandemic.

  • Policy memo «Penal geography, money transfers, prisoner social ties»

    2021-07-15
    Dmitrij Skugarevskij, Kseniya Runova, Leonid ZHizhin
    Quantitative legal studies

    This memo suggestes summary of the study which examines the previously unexplored form of social support that inmates enjoy: money transfers. We study the distance decay of financial support of prisoners. Drawing on proprietary data from a Russian prison tech company, we explore the universe of money transfers to any penal facility in Russia in 2017–19. To estimate the distance effect we build a gravity model of remittance flows from 1,117 cities to 931 penal facilities. The features of Russian penal geography reflect on the volume, frequency, and direction of transfers received by inmates. The gravity model of remittances suggests a pronounced distance decay. Correctional facilities closest to the sender city (0...144 km away, 1st percentile of pairwise distance) receive almost 10 times more funds than the facilities located 9,789...13,625 km away from the senders (the 99th percentile). 

    Read more in the article preprint «Prisoner social ties, money transfers, and sender-recipient distance: Evidence from Russia (in English)

    Text is availiable by the link (in Russian). 

  • Preprint "Prisoner social ties, money transfers, and sender-recipient distance: Evidence from Russia"

    2021-03-17
    Dmitrij Skugarevskij, Kseniya Runova, Leonid ZHizhin
    Quantitative legal studies

    This paper examines the previously unexplored form of social support that inmates enjoy: money transfers. We study the distance decay of financial support of prisoners. Drawing on proprietary data from a Russian prison tech company, we explore the universe of money transfers to any penal facility in Russia in 2017–19. To estimate the distance effect we build a gravity model of remittance flows from 1,117 cities to 931 penal facilities. The features of Russian penal geography reflect on the volume, frequency, and direction of transfers received by inmates. The gravity model of remittances suggests a pronounced distance decay. Correctional facilities closest to the sender city (0...144 km away, 1st percentile of pairwise distance) receive almost 10 times more funds than the facilities located 9,789...13,625 km away from the senders (the 99th percentile). The distance decay is mitigated in cities where people are more exposed to the penal system. Uncovered distance decay of financial support is associated with stigmatization of prisoners’ families.

    The preprint is avaliable by the link. 

  • The Law: Journal of Higher School of Economics published a scientific article by Denis Saveliev

    2020-05-22
    Denis Savel'ev
    Quantitative legal studies

    "The Law: Journal of Higher School of Economics" published the article "A Study in Complexity of Sentences Constituting Russian Federation Legal Acts" by Denis Saveliev, the IRL researcher.

  • Policy memo: "Decisions of Commercial Courts of Russian Federation: Lexical and Syntactical Quality of Texts" (D.Saveliev, R.Kuchakov) (2)

    2019-12-30
    Denis Savel'ev, Ruslan Kuchakov
    Quantitative legal studies

    The IRL presents policy memo: a study of lexical and syntactic complexity metrics of 880 thousand texts of decisions of arbitration courts of the Russian Federation in cases involving large businesses (from 10 billion rubles in revenue in 2016).

  • The Law: Journal of Higher School of Economics published a scientific article by Denis Saveliev

    2018-12-31
    Denis Savel'ev
    Quantitative legal studies

    The Law: Journal of Higher School of Economics published a scientific article by Denis Saveliev, the IRL researcher "On Creating and Using Text of the Russian Federation Corpus of Legal Acts as an Open Dataset".

  • Policy Memo “The complexity of legal acts in Russia: Lexical and Syntactical quality of texts” (R.Kuchakov, D.Saveliev)

    2018-12-07
    Denis Savel'ev, Ruslan Kuchakov
    Quantitative legal studies

    The IRL presents a policy memo “Complexity of legal acts in Russia: sexical and syntactical quality of texts”
     
    Using the methods of computational linguistics, we analyzed the dynamics of changes in the lexical and syntactic quality of legal acts. In this study we conclude that in Russia there is a deterioration in the quality of texts of federal and regional legal acts — a drop in lexical diversity, more complicated structure of sentences. This trend has intensified in recent years. The most complex sentences are produced by the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, as well as by the financial authorities.

  • Acquittal and Rehabilitation in the Republic of Kazakhstan

    2018-06-01
    Aleksej Knorre, Arina Dmitrieva, Vladimir Kudryavcev, Dar'ya Kuznecova, Kirill Titaev, Timur Bocharov
    Legal profession, Judiciary, Quantitative legal studies

    The group of IRL researchers has published the analytical report ‘Acquittal and Rehabilitation in the Republic of Kazakhstan’. This report has been prepared as a part of the joint European Union and Council of Europe programme ‘Support to the Kazakh Authorities in Improving the Quality and Efficiency of the Kazakh Justice System’. The report explores the functioning of the criminal justice system in Kazakhstan and discusses the role of the acquittal and rehabilitation in its improvement. The full text in Russian is available on our website.

  • Paper: "A New Quantitative Criminology Manifesto: Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Policymaking"

    2018-04-09
    Aleksej Knorre, Vladimir Kudryavcev, Dmitrij Skugarevskij, Kirill Titaev, Mariya Shklyaruk
    Quantitative legal studies

    The Institute for the Rule of Law presents a journal version of our “A New Quantitative Criminology Manifesto: Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Policymaking”. This paper stresses the importance of new technologies and approaches to data analysis in criminology research geared toward evidence-based policymaking. This manifesto demonstrates how quantitative methods can be used to get new insights into the nature of crime and the formulation of Russian criminal justice policy.

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