Customary-Legal Dimension of Self-Defense (in Memory of N.I. Uzdimaeva)

The article examines the biography and views on the Institute of self-defense of Natalia Ivanovna Tyurina (Uzdimaeva), associate professor of the N.P. Ogarev Mordovian State University, who died prematurely in 2021. From the point of view of N.I. Uzdimaeva legal self-defense is considered as an independent subjective right, the isolation of which in modern conditions is a real necessity, which should be it should be feasible, and its subjects should be given the opportunity to prevent violations of rights, restore them and compensate for all losses. The researcher considers such elements of the right to self-defense as the right to necessary self-defense (art. 37 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation); rights associated with a situation of extreme necessity (art. 39 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation); the right to self-defense of the right (art. 12 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation); “the right to silence” (art. 51 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation), etc.

N.I. Uzdimaeva, legal theorist, self-defense, customary law, Russian legal system