Russian Journal of Comparative Law

126-133

Authors: Roman V. Khalin

The article discusses the comparative-legal analysis of the application of special case exemption from liability for harm caused by defective goods, works or services in the countries of England and USA. The author indicates that the law of England and the USA along with their own individual features of development of system of legal regulation of liability for damage caused by deficiencies of goods, works and services, within the same historical period there was developed a special approach to the regulation of questions of responsibility for the quality of pharmaceutical products. The document concludes that the separation of the products in those dangerous in themselves, and those that create a danger to customers under certain conditions, has legal significance to attract the manufacturer to liability for harm caused to life, health or property of consumer. Danger (harmfulness) of the product as perceived by the right of his property, which, on the one hand, acquires the meaning of the terms of the disclaimer, regardless of its causes in the product, but on the other hand, the obligatory participation of an intermediary in the chain of distribution of the product among consumers excludes the contractor's liability for damage to the goods only on the ground of the presence of a fault in the product. In this case an obligatory condition of responsibility is the lack of intermediary information about this shortage.

140-146

Authors: Irina Nainodina

The article deals with two forms of mediation in France: court-annexed mediation and contractual mediation. The European Union law and the French legislation, which regulate these two forms, are presented. In particular, it analyses the provisions of the Directive 2008/52/CE, the Code of Civil Procedure, and the modified Act of 8 February 1995. The main attention is paid to the description of court-annexed and contractual mediation, their differences, and their conditions of implementation. Moreover, we analyze the procedure established for judicial mediation and its performance in the Centre for Mediation and Arbitration of Paris. The question about distinctive criteria between mediation and conciliation also arises.

161-168

Authors: Olga G. Turchenko

Under the conditions of globalization processes, the changes in the international system, as well as in nature of threats, the modern system of general, national security is also being transformed. Security space is transformed from a primarily military in the «complex», which includes elements from the neighboring subject areas of world interaction. In this connection there is an expansion of security space and alignment of priorities in different areas of the so-called «general security». In the article has been analyzed the narrow and wide going is considered near the study of national safety, different methods of research of the system of national safety; it is based the necessity of application of system methodology, methodologies of system researches.

176-178

Authors: Alexei A. Moiseev

The article presents a review of the book by famous Russian lawyer P. Biryukov «Criminal Liability of Legal Persons in EU-States».