William Butler

Pennsylvania State University, United States
Dickinson School of Law

Professional (scientific) interests: International and comparative law, with special reference to the Independent State of the former Soviet Union, including legal theory, legal history, all branches of law, private international law, approaches to international law, and relations with international organizations.

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Researcher ID: V-1056-2019



Selected Publications:

  1. Butler, W. E. (2024). International Law in Comparative Perspective. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004642454

  2. Butler, W. E. (2024). International Law and the Comparative Method. International Law in Comparative Perspective, 25–40. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004642454_005

  3. Butler, W. E. (2023). On the Life and Work of Tikhon Fedorovich Stepanov. Law and Visual Jurisprudence, 15–20. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26855-7_2

  4. Butler, W. E. (2023). The Post-Soviet as Post-Colonial: A New Paradigm for Understanding Constitutional Dynamics in the Former Soviet Empire by William Partlett and Herbert Küpper (review). Slavonic and East European Review, 101 (1), 187–189. https://doi.org/10.1353/see.2023.a897279

  5. Butler, W. E. (2023). Law Reform in Mongolia. Mongolia Today, 79–93.

  6. Butler, W. E. (2020). Periodization and international law. Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116718.00019

  7. Butler, W. E. (2019). Methodological Innovations in Soviet International Legal Doctrine. The Year Book of World Affairs 1978, 334–341. http://doi.org/10.4324/9780367274634-20