Economic law is a set of legal rules for regulating economic activity. In the
legal system of the Soviet Union, economic law was the legal theory and system under which economic relations were a legal discipline independent of
criminal law
Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It prescribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people inclusive of one's self. Most criminal ...
and
civil law.
[Ferdinand Joseph Maria Feldbrugge, Gerard Pieter van den Berg, William B. Simons (1985) "Encyclopedia of Soviet Law", '' BRILL'', ][O. S. (Olimpiad Solomonovich) Ioffe, Mark W. Janis (1987) "Soviet Law and Economy", Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, ]
In the Soviet legal system, the purpose of the economic law was to regulate the relations arising from the economic activities. The theory of the independence of the economic law was pursued after the
21st Congress of the CPSU of 1959, with the principal proponent being
V.V. Laptev. After debate, this position was adopted by the decrees of the
CPSU
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and the
USSR Council of Ministers during 1970–1975 and finalized in the
1977 Soviet Constitution
The 1977 Constitution of the Soviet Union, officially the Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was the constitution of the Soviet Union adopted on 7 October 1977 until its dissolution on 21 December 1991 ...
.
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See also
*Constitutional economics
Constitutional economics is a research program in economics and constitutionalism that has been described as explaining the choice "of alternative sets of legal-institutional-constitutional rules that constrain the choices and activities of economi ...
*Law and economics
Law and economics, or economic analysis of law, is the application of microeconomic theory to the analysis of law, which emerged primarily from scholars of the Chicago school of economics. Economic concepts are used to explain the effects of laws ...
*Political economy
Political economy is the study of how economic systems (e.g. markets and national economies) and political systems (e.g. law, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied phenomena within the discipline are systems such as labour ...
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Soviet law
Economy of the Soviet Union
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