Criminal law and criminal procedure. Proposed reforms

   From 2020–2023 International Relations published a series of monographs on different aspects of reforming criminal and criminal procedural law. The authors of this work summarize the suggestions they had offered earlier on the topic and put forward a number of new ones. In their entirety, the proposed interconnected and interdependent amendments to criminal, criminal procedural and a number of other laws represent a comprehensive project of large-scale reforms in the corresponding legislation. The main aim of these reforms in criminal law are to: align its norms and institutions with the norms and institutions of civil law, the separation of civil law relations and criminal acts, removing excess reprisals for crimes in the economic sphere, making criminal proceedings more similar to arbitrage proceedings. In arbitrage, unlike in criminal proceedings, prosecution of individuals for their alleged offences is carried out without compromising the principles of interdependence and equality of both parties the rights and legal interests of individuals involved in the sphere of jurisdiction. In turn, the integration within arbitrage jurisdiction of civil and criminal proceedings bears testament to the potential aptitude of this jurisdiction for also processing criminal cases connected to entrepreneurial and other types of economic activity. This will enable the economic dispute to be resolved together with the criminal case stemming from it, thereby minimizing the risk of adopting opposing legal acts. Particular attention in this work is paid to ensuring the principle of presumption of innocence, which a whole number of provisions in the CC RF and CPC RF do not uphold. The monograph cites draft federal laws “On making amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation”, “On making amendments to the Criminal Procedural Codex of the Russian Federation”, “On making amendments to specific legal acts of the Russian Federation”, and the draft Federal constitutional law “On making amendments to specific federal constitutional laws due to changes in the jurisdiction of criminal proceedings connected to entrepreneurial and other types of economic activity, and the procedure for their consideration”. In addition, comparative tables of current and draft editions of modifiable articles in corresponding laws are provided, and also explanatory notes to the aforementioned draft laws, which contain short justifications of the corresponding amendments. This work is aimed at a wide circle of readers. It can be used in legislative work and as a textbook for teachers and students in law schools.