Law's beginnings and early law -- The Russkaia Pravda -- Roman law in medieval Russia -- Land tenure, the Druzhina and the nature of Kievan Rus' -- Popular assemblies in early medieval Russia : the Veche in legal history -- The elder brother in Russia -- The treaties of medieval Russia -- Human rights in Russian legal history -- The Skra of Novgorod : legal contracts between Russia and western Europe in the middle ages -- Medieval law in Transcaucasia : on the periphery of European legal history.