On establishment of the legal status of the Republic of Tatarstan: Lecturers and graduates of the Faculty of Law as active participants of the process

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the historical striving of the Republic of Tatarstan to strengthen its legal status through sociological and economic self-determination. Prerequisites for this situation were analyzed. Tatarstan has distinguished itself as a leader of democratic federalism and an asymmetric federation of Russia. The development of Tatarstan was initiated in the early 1990s. An expert approach is required to evaluate the political and legal situation and the steps taken by the Tatarstan government and parliamentarians to adopt the key legal acts. The idea that the legal institutionalization of the status of Tatarstan in the early 1990s was determined by the activity of the academic and scientific community, which was represented by researchers, lecturers, and graduates of the Faculty of Law of Kazan University, was discussed. It was concluded that the principled position of the Tatarstan government supported by the active participation of lecturers and graduates of the Faculty of Law, who acted as parliamentarians and experts, was the potential that determined the consistency of the fundamental legal acts underlying the establishment of the legal status of Tatarstan as a subject of the democratic federation.

Keywords

• russian federalism
• federal state
• self-determination
• tatar assr
• republic of tatarstan
• kazan state university
• faculty of law