Publisher's Synopsis
Twenty-one distinguished international and comparative legal scholars, practitioners, diplomats, judges, and arbitrators from England, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, and the United States contribute essays collected in honour of Professor William Butler, assessing his role in the development of legal doctrine, East/West academic and professional relations, legal translation, and legal scholarship generally. The essays address the origins of the European legal tradition, the constitutional monarchy in Russia, the historical foundations of the joint-activity contract, Russian law reform in court organization, corporate law, and the law of obligations, the rule-of-law State, administrative justice in Ukraine, the International Academy of Comparative Law, issues of domestic violence in China, aspects of international finance law and Russian legislation, and aspects of State immunity in public international law and European human rights law.
