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Soviet Law. By W. E. Butler. London: Butterworths, 1983. Pp. xxi, 374. Index. £19.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Michael Newcity
Michael Newcity*
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University of Puget Sound School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 81 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 817 - 820
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1987

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References

1 To put this number in perspective, during the same 3-year period 12 articles were listed for France, 11 for Germany and 2 for Italy.

2 See, e.g., Friedmann, , Modern Trends in Soviet Law, 10 U. Toronto L.J. 87 (1953)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Timasheff, , Soviet Law, 38 Va. L. Rev. 871 (1952)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 See, e.g., Lefeaux, , Russia—An Enigma, 11 Advocate 173 (1953)Google Scholar.

4 See, e.g., Armstrong, , Private Enterprise in a Planned Economy: Implementation and Nullification of Soviet Law, 16 Cornell Int’l L.J. 49 (1983)Google Scholar.

5 William Butler observes in Soviet Law: “It is no exaggeration to say that the western law student has more materials available to him in English translation concerning the Soviet legal system than for any other continental European jurisdiction” (p. 4).

6 It is yet another indication of the substantial interest in the Soviet legal system that a treatise on this subject was chosen as the first entry in a series about the world’s legal systems. Future volumes will be devoted to the Italian, Chinese and Japanese legal systems.

7 There is a discussion of the duties charged in connection with inheritance and the taxes imposed on income earned in the USSR by foreign individuals and corporate entities. Other than this, however, there is no comprehensive treatment of taxation.

8 Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet of Feb. 11, 1964 (O ratifikatsii Venskoy Konventsii o Diplomaticheskikh Snosheniiakh), Ved. Verkh. Sov. SSSR, No. 8, Feb. 19, 1964, item 97, at 163–64.