Zavadsky, Alexander Vladimirovich

Zavadsky Alexander Vladimirovich (February 18, 1873 - February 9, 1915) - Russian lawyer , assistant professor at Kazan University .

Born in Kazan province.

In 1895, he graduated from the law faculty of Kazan University and was left at the university to prepare for a professorship.

Since 1898, A. V. Zavadsky, Assistant Professor, Kazan University, Department of Procedural Civil Law. He also read the course of civil justice , taught law at the Mariinsky Women's Gymnasium and at the Higher Women's Courses.

The sphere of scientific interests of A. V. Zavadsky is composed of the problems of civil proceedings.

The works of A. V. Zavadsky on civil law and civil process cover a wide range of problems and are characterized by three qualities: the depth of the problems studied, a subtle analysis of the views available in the literature on the studied question and a good knowledge of judicial practice. He gave a deep theoretical substantiation of the legal side of a number of high-profile court cases, including a dispute between the heirs of L. N. Tolstoy’s manuscripts. In 1905, he defended three privat-docents dismissed from the university, deprived of this title, criticized the actions of the Ministry of National Education, arguing that, according to Russian legislation, a privat-docent can be deprived of the title only by a court sentence and only as one of the punishments for the guilty criminal offense. In his work on the interpretation of civil laws, which remained unfinished, he made an attempt to determine the scientific significance for the civil law of the newest division of legal science into three parts: legal dogma, sociology of law, and politics of law.

Major works:

On the ninth chapter of the fifth book of the draft civil code (personal lease agreement) Kazan 1900

On the question of the credibility of the testimony: (experiments A. Binet and V. Stern) Kazan 1903

The irremovability of a judge and his independence Kazan 1903

To the psycho-legal experience of the judicial review Kazan 1904

On the right to own image Kazan 1909

Changes in civil proceedings of district judges: German law (July 1, 1909) Moscow 1910

To the doctrine of the interpretation of civil laws: Recent trends on this issue in German literature Kazan 1916

It was also published in the magazines "Legal Bulletin", "Bulletin of civil law", "Proceedings of the Legal Society at the University of Kazan" and other publications.