Legal Reforms Help Center

Since 1993, under the guidance and initiative of our national leader, H.Aliyev, the reforms on a grand scale have started to be implemented on a purpose to establish and develop civil society in the country, to consolidate the economical power, state sovereignty of our young, independent country.Economical, social, cultural, as well as legal reforms carried out in different spheres of state and society, of course, are prior principles of establishing legal, democratic, and secular state.

To carry out and develop legal reforms, covering all spheres of society in the right direction, is of a great importance for joining the integration of the republic, newly gained its independence into the world community, the involvement of foreign investment into the country economy, and the establishment of a democratic civil society;The experience of the developed countries also proves that. On the 12th of November, in 1995, after the adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, prepared under the guidance and initiative of our national leader H. Aliyev, legal reforms in the country gained more acceleration; the improvement of legislative base, the structural reforms and other issues stepped into a new quality stage.

Our activity

As a result of legal reforms, that began from the 90s of the last century, the conceptual ways of solving the principal issues such as: the building of a democratic, secular state as well as integration into the modern world community, the formation of free civil society, the guarantee of legitimate operation of the Court and the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms by a state on a high level were defined.As a whole, in order to ensure the progressive, permanent development of civil society the continuity of legal reforms (as well as law – court reforms) successively is very significant. In this process, the active role of different structures of civil society, the purposeful activity of pubic organizations in the propaganda and delivery of state policy to the society plays a positive role. From this viewpoint, the constructive work of the public organizations operating in our country is very significant. The activity of public organizations is encircled by the state care in the process of improvement of state policy in various spheres of society, educating the large strata of society.

The tasks to be implemented

• To carry out the task LRSC, set before, it will lead the affairs more consequently and purposefully in the following directions;
• application of innovations in legal reforms, administration, working out innovatory projects and supporting their implementation;
• establishing and consolidating legal basis formation of innovatory society.
• being one of the significant factors of civil society development, to achieve the implementation of international experience by the means of solution of disputes apart from court through mediation, conciliation, arbitration and others.
• increasing the professionalism of lawyer personnel in particular, involving lawyers working in private sector into the improvement of professional skill training courses; acquisition of senior students studying at higher schools or newly graduated ones, a habit of practical science of law, training highly-qualified personnel.
• mastering an international experience in order to support the improvement of legal reforms;
• working out new law drafts, involving international specialists, coming out with legislative initiatives;
• In order to achieve the purposes set before, 3 independent bodies attached to LRSC have been established appropriate to its main activity;
• Azerbaijan Arbitration and Mediation Centre, Innovation Development Centre;
• Legal Educational Training Centre;

Undoubtedly, we suppose to make profit on acquiring and implementing international experience in our work on purpose to achieve all our goals. Our specialists carry out serious investigations in this direction: As well as, the centre intends to cooperate with state bodies and public organizations being engaged in implementation of innovatory drafts and legal reforms in their work.To achieve its goals, LRSC has done lots of things at its own charge within a short period of time since it was established. For instance, prepared by our specialist “Russian-Azerbaijani Law Dictionary” with explanations, including approximately 2000 legal terms has been presented to readers being published with a mass circulation. The books “Inheritance” , “Enactments” , “Resolutions” , “Commentaries” (1923-2000) , “The arrangement of mediation process in the solution of disputes” have been worked out by the employees of the Centre and are going to be published with a mass printing in the near future.