Palauzov V. N.

Palauzov V. N. «On the Question of Our Future Criminal Code.» — Odessa: Typo-lithography of the Staff of the Odessa Military District, 1894, 183 p.

A lifetime edition. A critical essay devoted to the analysis of the draft of the General Part of the Criminal Code developed by the Editorial Commission, as well as to the responses to it by Russian and foreign criminologists. The author examines the key provisions of the second edition of the draft, acting as one of the leading representatives of the science of criminal law of his time.

The publication is a valuable source on the history of the development of criminal legislation in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Palauzov (1851–1920) was a Russian jurist and criminologist, legal scholar, educator and scientific writer of Bulgarian origin, and an ordinary professor of the Imperial Novorossiya University. He is known as a defender of the jury trial and the author of a number of works on criminal law and procedure, as well as a participant in the creation of the first Bulgarian constitution.