Scientific legal heritage of professor Sergey Vladimirovich Shostakovich. To the 120 anniversaries since birth

Are considered scientific heritage of the historian, lawyer and orientalist, professor of the Irkutsk university S. V. Shostakovich. Its role in reconstruction of the higher legal education in Eastern Siberia is noted. The main attention is paid to the analysis of historical and legal questions in research of antique Greece, the countries of the Middle East, Central Asia and China during modern and latest times. It is noted that S. V. Shostakovich made a scientific contribution in studying the legal dependent population and patriarchal family in Ancient Greece, problems of the feudal monarchy in Persia of the end XVIII – the first half of the 19th centuries, international law, a problem of exterritoriality of foreigners in China of the beginning of the 20th century, international legal position of the state Tannu-Tuva in the 20th of the 20th century. It one of the first considered also political and legal views of the prominent Russian diplomat A. S. Griboyedov. The conclusion is drawn that S. V. Shostakovich carried on scientific traditions of a historical and legal perspective of the Irkutsk legal school of the 1920th, made an original contribution to studying problems of history of state and law, a political and legal thought.