Yuri Adolfovich Yudin (1926–2000) - legal scholar, founder of the so-called “legal Africanism”, winner of the A. F. Koni Prize (2000).
| Yuri Adolfovich Yudin | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | September 9, 1926 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Date of death | June 26, 2000 ( 73) |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| Scientific field | jurisprudence |
| Place of work | Institute of State and Law RAS |
| Alma mater | Moscow Law Institute |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Law (1976) |
| Awards and prizes | A.F. Coney Prize (2000) |
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Biography
He was born on September 9, 1926 in Moscow, in the family of the lawyer Adolf Iosifovich Yudin (1896-1965), a famous Soviet lawyer.
In 1949 he graduated from the Moscow Law Institute , then he studied at the graduate school of this institute.
In 1953 he defended his thesis, topic: "The political basis of the people's democratic state in the countries of Central and Southeast Europe."
In 1976 he defended his doctoral dissertation, topic: “Political Systems of Independent Countries of Tropical Africa (State and Political Parties)”.
From 1957 to 1958, he worked as a senior editor at the editorial board of the Economics, Philosophy and Law publishing house of Moscow State University.
From 1958 to 2000, he worked at the Institute of State and Law of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , where he went from a junior research scientist to a chief research associate.
He died on June 26, 2000.
Scientific activity
Research interests: problems of the general theory of state and law, constitutional law of foreign countries.
He formulated a number of new theoretical provisions and conclusions on such problems as the social nature, the role and patterns of development of the state and political parties in Asia and Africa.
He made a significant contribution to the development of problems of the state structure of the countries of Africa and the Arab East.
The author of more than 100 scientific papers.
Monographs
- “Political Systems of Independent Countries of Tropical Africa” (M., 1975)
- "Legal regulation of national relations" (M., 1980)
- "The supreme organs of the state in the countries of Tropical Africa (some political and legal problems of the capitalist orientation)"
- One of the main authors and editors of the collective three-volume monograph “Constitutional Law of Developing Countries” (1987-1992)
Rewards
- Prize named after A. F. Coney (2000) - for the monograph “Political Parties and Law in the Modern State”
Links
- Yudin, Yuri Adolfovich on the official website of the RAS
- Yudin Yuri Adolfovich . // az-libr.ru. Date of treatment May 11, 2017.
- Yudin Yuri Adolfovich . // Center for military-political research. Date of treatment May 11, 2017.