Contains much background on pre-revolutionary and Soviet approaches to the law of treaties and on the legislative history of Article 15(4) of the 1993 Russian Constitution.
William E. Butler is a pre-eminent authority on the legal systems of Russia and extensively involved in the field of public and private international law. He has been the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University since 2005 and is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law at the University of London.