The article is devoted to the problem of self-education, self formation of students of law schools and directions of preparation of the necessary knowledge and skills. Provides guidelines for working with legal and literary sources, streamlining the process of self-study.

Keywords: education, self-education, lawyer, lecturer, teacher

Author of article the judgment that derogation of value of the doctrine as the most important, traditional exercised source of the right causes negative consequences for the Russian legal system locates.

Keywords: Doctrine, right, state, precedent, court, source, theory, science.

The present article is devoted to a research of ethnicity’s role in law consciousness. Author believes that state, law and law consciousness always have ethnic base.

Keywords: state, law, law consciousness, ethnicity, ethnos.

The article addresses the criminogenic factors determine bacterial crimes committed on the territory of the Russian Federation, representatives of Asian organized crime groups.

Keywords: criminogenic factors, organized crime, ethnic crime, prevention of crimes.

In the article the authors conduct comparative-legal analysis of the procedural status of the victim in criminal processes of France and Russia.

Keywords: the victim; criminal process of France; criminal process of Russia; procedural status of the victim.

As a general rule, the court may perform procedural actions within their state. As for the commission of such proceedings in a foreign country, the consent of that State. This article discusses the features of the implementation of orders from foreign institutions of Justice, which forms  the basis of the concept of «legal aid».

Keywords: legal aid, legal aid, court orders, legal mutual assistance, mutual legal assistance, international legal assistance.

The article contents analyses of the problem of relationships sources in modern international law of foreign investment.

Keywords: sources of law, investments, principle of law regulation, nation treatment, principle of the most favorite nation.

Review of monograph of O.N. Petyukova “Law forms of relations of Soviet State and Russian Orthodox Church in 1917-1945”.

Keywords: legal forms of relations between the state and religious organizations, church-state relations, the Russian legislation, freedom of conscience, the Soviet state, the Russian Orthodox Church.