Interview with H.E. Ambassador Vladimir Tarabrin

Vladimir Tarabrin – Special Representative of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for international anti-terrorist cooperation, Director of the Department on the Issues of New Challenges and Threats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MFA). He graduated from the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Moscow State Institute of International Relations. He has been working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of USSR/Russia (MFA) since 1979 and held various diplomatic posts in the central office of the MFA and abroad. 1995–1998 – Head of Division, Deputy Director of the Legal Department. 1998–2002 – Senior Counsellor and Legal Advisor of the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in New York / Alternate Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations Security Council. 2002–2008 – Deputy Director of the Legal Department. In 2008–2013 he served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Gabonese Republic. In 2013–2017 he was Ambassador at large (international anti-corruption cooperation). In 2017–2019 – Director of the Department Crisis Situation Centre of the MFA. Has diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Making a Living

The chapter explores Colson’s sources of income under the Old Regime and how this was related to his position in society. Although he drew revenues from familial property he owned in Varennes and a variety of other investments, his main sources of income came from his position as legal advisor and financial administrator to the Ravary wine-making family and, above all, to the Longaunay family of nobles. The chapter focuses, in particular, on the complex relations linking him to the Marquise, Marquis, and Comte of Longaunay in his role of overseeing the exploitation of the family’s lands and seigniorial dues in Normandy and Berry and serving as point man in the many lawsuits in which the family found itself entangled. It also examines the wide variety of his other responsibilities for this family beyond finances, and his close relations with Roch Lemaigre, the local intendant living near the family’s possessions in Berry in the small town of Levroux.

Procedural Aspects of Proportionality

In this chapter, it is suggested that the focus of the application of the principle of proportionality in practice lies in the procedural aspects of the principle—the precautions taken before an attack, the decision-making processes, and the institutions put in place in order to verify whether the rule of proportionality was applied. Based on this insight, the chapter concludes proportionality is a highly bureaucratized mode of operation, in which a specific set of procedures is followed. These procedures are justified both because they create a heightened awareness of the value of human lifes, and because they provide an effective way to control the actions of soldiers. The chapter then discusses several aspects of this procedural approach: the proper decision-maker; the requirement to provide advanced warnings; the duty to gather intelligence before an attack is launched; and the role of the military legal advisor.

C. Wilfred Jenks and the Futures of International Organizations Law

This article situates C. Wilfred Jenks as a central figure in the emergence and development of the law of international organizations. Deeply informed by his work as a legal advisor at the International Labour Organization (ILO), Jenks’ scholarly writings during and immediately after World War II established a basis for, and elaborated the details of many aspects of, classical international organizations law. Moreover, the article argues that Jenks’ oeuvre also articulated a number of insights and approaches that, in retrospect, may be read as suggesting a series of alternative futures for international organizations law. By examining Jenks’ foundational works on international organizations law, therefore, the article seeks to recover aspects of Jenks’ thinking that might have led – and might still lead – the field to explore different paths.

A New Era

Paul Tagliabue was a logical choice to succeed Pete Rozelle as Commissioner given his two decades as chief legal advisor to the league. It took fifty hours of debate by the search committee, four owners meetings, and eleven ballots to reach this logical decision. His first major achievement was coming to a labor settlement with Gene Upshaw and the NFLPA. Al Davis was instrumental in this process. This set the stage for the next round of television contracts netting $33M/team/year over the next four years and an expansion of network coverage and DirecTV. Then came expansion and relocation of franchises. Tagliabue moved to expand NFL involvement in public issues including moving the Super Bowl out of Arizona over the MLK Day controversy. Internal issues included the revenue sharing policies that were under threat by Jerry Jones and Dallas. The market was also expanded with the creation of NFL Properties led by Sara Levinson from MTV and a direct appeal to women fans. NFL Revenue increased significantly. Race continued to be a major issue. There was an increase in black quarterbacks, but no significant change in coaching and executive ranks. A Diversity Committee was created in 2002 and the Rooney Rule was adopted I 2004 with initial promising results but it was not sustained over the next 15 years. In March of 2004 Tagliabue announced his retirement amidst great praise for this time as Commissioner. The one issue that he failed to address was that of concussions and head injuries.

Odpowiedzialność dyscyplinarna radcy prawnego za naruszenie tajemnicy zawodowej – na przykładzie wybranych orzeczeń sądowych

The subject of this article is the issue of disciplinary liability of a legal adviser for breach of professional secrecy. The first part of the article presents general issues related to the exercise of the profession of legal advisor, professional secrecy and disciplinary proceedings. The main part of the article presents selected court decisions in order to determine in which situations the legal adviser will bear disciplinary liability for breach of professional secrecy and in which not.

Stwierdzenia zasiedzenia nieruchomości a koszty postępowania nieprocesowego w badaniach empirycznych

Court costs and way of conducting of the non-contentious proceedings is discussed on an example of 11 cases concerning declaration of prescription of real estate, which were recognized by 4 Districts Courts in: Warsaw (2), Żyrardów and Skierniewice. The aim of the empirical research is determining the scope of regulations, which are applied by judges and their frequency of use. In that way the impact of decisions, which are issued in the typical procedural situations as well as presiding judge’s orders within the framework of conducting trial is proved on the non-contentious proceedings especially substantive decision. In these cases lack of opportunity of refund the costs of the non-contentious proceedings causes applicant’s and participant’s passivity and, as a consequence, it transfers burden of conducting evidence proceedings on court. Another problem is also exemption of the court costs and appointing ex officio an attorney or legal advisor for poor people.

Tajemnica zawodowa adwokata i radcy prawnego w postępowaniu przed sejmową komisją śledczą

The secret of the professional of a lawyer and legal advisor in proceedings before the parliamentary inquiry commission. Professional secrecy is scared for a lawyer. It is a legal and ethical obligation. The state tries to enter into professional secrecy in various ways, as it happensin the case of procideengs before the parliamentary inquiry commission. The commission may apply to the court for release of the lawyer from the obligation of professional secrecy. Then an attorney may face an ethical problem – how to behave? Therefore, an extremely imprtant role lies with the court, which decides to release the lawyer the obligation of secrecy.

Dimensions of Legal Ethics in the Light of Paul Ricoeur’s ‘Petite Éthique’

The article investigates the multidimensional phenomenon of legal ethics, whose complexity justifies looking for adequate tools for its systematization in philosophy. An attempt is made to characterize a number of aspects of legal ethics in the perspective of Paul Ricoeur’s “little ethics” (French: la petite éthique). The concept makes it possible to order the reflection on the phenomenon of ethics in, among others, the teleological and deontological dimensions, as well as in the intrapersonal (i.e. within a person), interpersonal, and institutional (corporate) dimensions. The article also refers to the question of the textual dimension of legal ethics, including the co-conditioning of the substance of the codes of ethics and the personal “text of action” of a barrister, legal advisor, etc. This provides context for discussing the question of the dialectic of the prescriptive and descriptive aspects of codes of ethics on the basis of Ricoeur’s narratological considerations against a broader background of the dispute between cognitivism and noncognitivism.