Judging Russia

Alexei Trochev is Adjunct Professor for the School of Policy Studies of Queen's University in Ontario. He received his B.A. in Russian law from Syktyvkar State University in 1995 and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto in 2005. He taught Constitutional Law at the Pomor State University Law School in Arkhangelsk, Russia. Trochev's writings have been published in the Law & Society Review, American Journal of Comparative Law, East European Constitutional Review, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and he has contributed several book chapters on post-communist judicial politics.

• 1. Introduction: three puzzles of post-communist judicial empowerment; 2. Non-linear judicial empowerment; 3. Making and re-making constitutional review Russian-style; 4. The Russian constitutional review in action (1990–3); 5. Decision-making of the 2nd Russian constitutional court: 1995–2006; 6. The constitutional court has ruled … what next?; 7. The 2nd Russian constitutional court (1995–2007): problematique of implementation; 8. 'Tinkering' with judicial tenure and 'wars of courts' in comparative perspective.

Review of the hardback: 'Alexei Trochev is ideally qualified to write this magnificent and highly important book. This will be required reading not only for those interested in public law and constitutional adjudication, but also anyone wishing to gain an understanding of contemporary Russia.' Bill Bowring, Journal of Law and Society