The 12 Apostles of Russian Law: Lawyers who changed law state and society

Pavel Krasheninnikov (born 1964) is a prominent Russian politician state official and professor of law.He studied at Sverdlovsk School of Law and then did graduate work there. He subsequently taught at the Ural State Law University. In the 1990s he served as an expert on legislation for the Supreme Soviet and worked in senior posts in various state authorities including as head of Russias Ministry of Justice under Boris Yeltsin. He spent a decade as rector of the Russian School of Private Law in Moscow. At present Krasheninnikov is a deputy in the State Duma and for 18 years he has led the Dumas legislative committee.Krasheninnikov took part in the drawing up of a new Civil Code and other major legislation in modern Russia. He has played an active role in drafting and introducing legal reforms.He is responsible for over 150 publications in the field of private and public law as well as legal theory and history. Krasheninnikov has authored a series of works in which he has traced the emergence and development of law as a key system for regulating interpersonal and social relations and as one of the sources of authority.His book The 12 Apostles of Law first saw publication in Russia in 2016 and is dedicated to the great legal minds who through their scholarship and legislative activity changed Russias law government and society over two centuries. For over thirty years Krasheninnikov has studied the lives and work of the men depicted in this book and he was fortunate to personally work with four of them.Translated from the Russian by Christopher CulverPublished with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation RussiaPublishers Maxim Hodak & Max Mendor