Kaugia, Silvia

Job

Lecturer of Comparative Jurisprudence

Personal data

Born: August 29, 1963, Tartu
E-mail: silvia.kaugia@ut.ee

Education

MA (Sociology), University of Tartu, 1994
Master of Sociology Program, University of Tartu, 1991–1994
Faculty of Law, University of Tartu, 1988 (cum laude)

Career

Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Tartu, 1993–current
Senior Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Tartu, 1988–1991
Assistant, Faculty of Law, University of Tartu, 1981–1988

Main areas of research

Comparative Jurisprudence, Sociology of Law

Grants and projects

Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) Grant for Project: Realisation of Reform of Administration and with it Connected Quality Development of Estonian Law in Kontext Constitutional Order of Estonia and EU Law. Grant holder K. Merusk.
Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) Grant for Project: Legaltheoretics Bases of Procedure of Administration and Optimision. Grant holder K. Merusk
Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) Target Financing for Project: Implementation of Estonian Public Raw Reform in the Context of Joining the European Union Legal Order. With 11 team members, 2001–2005
University of Greifswald`s Project: Experience of Violence of Youth as Culprit and Casualty. 2002–2004. Grant holder in Estonia J. Sootak.
Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) Grant No. 4577 for project: Legal-theoretical Basis and Optimisation of Administrative Procedure. With 7 team members, 2001–2004
Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) Grant for Project: Youth and Law in Changing Estonia in 1974–1998. Grant holder S. Kaugia, 1999–2000
Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) Target Financing No. 0539 for Project: Reform of Estonian National Legal Order in Public Law: Conceptual Positions of Departure, Legislation, Standards of Interpretation, Legal Decision. With 11 team members, 1996–2000

Professional activity and membership

Founding Member of B.G. Forselius Society, 2006–current
Founding Member of Estonian-German Society of Law, 2003–current
Founding Member of the Law Philosophy Society of Estonia, 1999–current
Founding Member of the Tartu Society of Legal Psychologists and Sociologists, 1994–current

Participation in scientific conferences and seminars

International Scientific Conference ‘Guilt or Perilousness – the Dilemma of Legal Punishment Law’, September 19, 2008, Tartu, Estonia
XX International Criminology Seminar, June 29–July 1, 2007, Saint Petersburg
Forum of Judges 2007 ‘Courts and Legislative Drafting [Kohtud ja õigusloome], June 7, 2007, Tartu, Estonia
International Symposium ‘Normative Communication and Structure of Communication in Legal Startehood and Global Dimension’, April 21, 2006, Tartu, Estonia
VI Conference of Estonian Social Scientists. Tallinn, Estonia, November 4–November 5, 2005
V Conference of Estonian Social Scientists. Tartu, Estonia, November 12–November 13, 2004
International Conference ‘Reform of Legal Punishment Law of Estonia and New Legal Punishment Law in Comparison with the EU’, October 9–October 13, 2002, Tartu, Estonia
International Symposium ‘Legislation and Legal Policy’, September 28–October 1, 2000, Tartu, Estonia
International Conference ‘Governance: Lawful and/or Efficient’, September 22, 2000, Tallinn, Estonia

Studies abroad

University of Kiel, Germany, 2004
Juridical Institute of the General Prosecutor’s Office of Russia, Russia, 2003
Sankt Petersburg’s Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia, 2003
University of Helsinki, Finland, 1999
University of Münster, Germany, 1996
Centre of Development of Management of Helsinki, Finland, 1995

Teaching practice

Comparative Law, 2005–current
Introduction to Jurisprudence, 2002–current
Seminars on Encyclopaedia of Law, 1999–current
Coll. of Encyclopaedia of Law, 1999–current
Sociology of Law, 1995–current
Introduction to Comparative Law, 1993–current
Introduction to Comparative Jurisprudence, 1993–current

Publications

S. Kaugia. Raising the Level of Legal Consciousness as an Element of Criminal Politics. Views on Legal Politics, 2008, pp. 111–123 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Justice of Law as a Prerequisite for Effective Law. Interdisiplinarity in Social Sciences. II. Tallinn: Tallinn University of Technology, 2007, pp. 486–507 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Legal Consciousness: Nature, Formation, Operation. – Law in Society, 2006, pp. 77–113 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Role of the School in Social Stratification. – Forseliuse Sõnumid, 2004, No. 11, pp. 21–25 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Tendency of Behaviour as one Element of Legal Consciousness. – Transactions of Criminology of Sankt Petersburg, 2003, No. 1(6), pp. 211–218 (in Russian).
S. Kaugia. Place of Legal Norms in Different Cultural Spheres. – Transactions of Riigikogu, 2002, No. 6, pp. 69–78 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Influence of Legal Sozialisation Agents of Estonian Youth in Transition Society. – Akadeemia, 2002, No. 1, pp. 122–126 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Legal Knowledge among the Estonian Youth in the Context of Socioeconomic Break. – Theory of Law, 2000, Vol 31, No. ¾, pp. 435–449 (in German).
S. Kaugia. About Social Conflict and How to Regulate It. – Akadeemia, 2000, No. 7 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Effect of Upbringing Environment on Regeneration of Criminals. – On the Ways of Development of Estonian Criminal Law. Compilation of Articles. Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Ilmar Rebane. Tartu: Lawyers Training Centre, 1997, pp. 27–36 (in Estonian).
S. Kaugia. Socioeconomic Factors of Criminal Activity. (On the Basis of Materials Collected in the Industrial Region of North-East Estonia). Master Thesis, Tartu, 1994.

Articles in Juridica

A Matter of ‘Right Law’, Juridica Abstract, 2009, No. 2, pp. 67–75
Comparison of Legal Knowledge of Secondary School Students in Estonia and USA, Juridica Abstract, 2002, No. 6, pp. 421–425
Emile Durkheim and Social Disconnectedness, Juridica Abstract, 1998, No. 5, pp. 256–257
The Nature, Role and Purpose of Sociology of Law in Contemporary Society, Juridica Abstract, 1995, No. 8, pp. 360–361
Shifts in the Legal Consciousness of Young People in Estonia in 1975–95, Juridica Abstract, 1995, No. 7, pp. 313–315

Articles in Juridica International

Estonian Schoolchildren’s Opinions about Violence and the Possibilities for Prevention, Juridica International, 2008, No. 2, pp. 135–143
Legal Knowledge of Estonian Youth. Comparison of 1970s and 1990s, Juridica International, 2000, No. 1, pp. 20–29
Estonian Institutions of Justice Within the Legal Socialisation System of Young, Juridica International, 1998, No. 1, pp. 84–91
Legal Behaviour: Norm and Deviation, Juridica International, 1997, No. 1, pp. 7–13
Structure of Legal Consciousness, Juridica International, 1996, No. 1, pp. 16–20

Languages

Estonian (Native)
Russian (Good)
German (Good)

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