The attempts of Russia and Kazakhstan to establish an "island of stability" for complex, long-term infrastructure projects in an unstable legal environment are examined and compared in this book. Fundamental issues of civil, private and public administrative law are taken up and analysed in the context of concession contracts.

Many states use public-private partnership instruments to attract funding for improving public service infrastructure. An example of such an instrument is concessions. Commonly used in Russia and Kazakhstan, these are contracts with private investors for the construction, modernisation, operation and re-transfer of public infrastructure objects. Legal discussion on PPPs and concessions in Russia and Kazakhstan is focussed on contract law, although the administrative law dimension is omnipresent. The attempts of these two transition states to establish an "island of stability" for complex, long-term projects in a rather unstable legal environment are examined and compared in this book. As a result, fundamental issues of civil, private and public administrative law are taken up and analysed.

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Geboren 1980 in Baku, Aserbaidschan; Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Baku; praktische Tätigkeit in Moskau; LL.M., Universität Heidelberg; seit 2008 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Osteuropäisches Recht der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.