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W. E. Butler. The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Text and Commentary. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii, 548 pp. $100.00.

W. E. Butler. The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Text and... W. E. Butler. The L a w o f Treaties in Russia a n d the Commonwealth o f Independent States: Text a n d Commentary. N e w York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii, 548 pp. $100.00. This b o o k is an important contribution to the understanding o f international treaty law, Russian law, and the law o f the other members o f the Commonwealth o f Inde- pendent States. Professor Butler has provided excellent translations o f the laws on in- ternational treaties from each o f these countries, along with his own extensive com- mentary, a comprehensive bibliography, and a useful index. Russia and several others o f the newly independent states have published official Russian-language versions o f these laws. The laws o f the other states are translated from authoritative Russian- language sources. (In a n u m b e r o f these countries laws were in fact drafted in Russian and only later translated into the official national language. Lawyers in Kazakhstan, for instance, almost never use the Kazakh-language translations o f laws.) Because Butler has translated all o f these laws himself, there is a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

W. E. Butler. The Law of Treaties in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Text and Commentary. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii, 548 pp. $100.00.

Maggs, Peter B.
Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 38 (4): 473 – Jan 1, 2004
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W. E. Butler. The L a w o f Treaties in Russia a n d the Commonwealth o f Independent States: Text a n d Commentary. N e w York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xiii, 548 pp. $100.00. This b o o k is an important contribution to the understanding o f international treaty law, Russian law, and the law o f the other members o f the Commonwealth o f Inde- pendent States. Professor Butler has provided excellent translations o f the laws on in- ternational treaties from each o f these countries, along with his own extensive com- mentary, a comprehensive bibliography, and a useful index. Russia and several others o f the newly independent states have published official Russian-language versions o f these laws. The laws o f the other states are translated from authoritative Russian- language sources. (In a n u m b e r o f these countries laws were in fact drafted in Russian and only later translated into the official national language. Lawyers in Kazakhstan, for instance, almost never use the Kazakh-language translations o f laws.) Because Butler has translated all o f these laws himself, there is a

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