Yekaterinburg: Institute of Private Law, 2009. - 32 s. About the author. Sergey Sergeevich Alekseev (1924 - 2013) - scientific director of the program "The formation and development of private law in Russia" , Honored Scientist of the RSFSR (1974) , USSR State Prize (1977) , Corresponding Member of RAS (1987), Honorary Doctorate of the University of Paris (2000), Doctor of Law (1961) , Professor (1962). Considered - along with A. A. Sobchak, L. C. Mamut and C. M. Fraudulent - one of the direct authors of the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 1993 . Concerns about the severe global crisis prompted the author to return to reflections on the role of law in society from a new perspective.