Russian legal historians, scholars who study

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in historical perspective, include: * Harold J. Berman (1918–2007), Harvard law professor and expert on Russian law * William E. Butler (1939–), distinguished professor of law at Dickinson School of Law,

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Boris Chicherin Boris Nikolayevich Chicherin (russian: Бори́с Никола́евич Чиче́рин) ( 1828 – 1904) was a Russian jurist and political philosopher, who worked out a theory that Russia needed a strong, authoritative government to perseve ...

(1828–1904), Russian jurist and political philosopher * (1933–), professor of international law at

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, former Dean of Law Faculty of Leiden University and leading sovietologist. Editor of ''Encyclopedia of Soviet Law'' and author of ''Medieval History of Russia'' (Nijhoff, 2009) *

V.E. Grabar Vladimir Emmanuilovich Grabar (10 (22) January 1865, Vienna — 26 November 1956, Моscow) — was a Russian and Soviet jurist. The brother of painter Igor Grabar, and the husband of philologue and translator Maria Grabar-Passek. He is one of ...

, author of influential ''History of International Law in Russia (1847–1917)'' *

Aleksandr Gradovsky Aleksandr Gradovsky (1841–1889) was a Russian jurist. A professor of law at St. Petersburg University Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет ...

(1841–1889), Russian jurist * John N. Hazard (1909–1995), leading American sovietologist and expert on Russian law * Dmitri Kachenovsky (1827–1872), influential liberal jurist in Russia * Leonid Alekseevich Kamarovsky (1846–1912), professor of international law at Moscow State University *

Konstantin Kavelin Konstantin Dmitrievich Kavelin (russian: Константи́н Дми́триевич Каве́лин; November 4, 1818 – May 5, 1885) was a Russian historian, jurist, and sociologist, sometimes called the chief architect of early Russian libe ...

(1818–1885), Russian historian, jurist, and sociologist *

Nikolay Korkunov Nikolai Mikhailovich Korkunov (Николай Михайлович Коркунов; – ) was a leading authority on constitutional law and legal sociology in the Russian Empire. His father was Mikhail Korkunov, a noted Russian historian. His s ...

(1855–1904), professor for constitutional and international law at the

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* Evgeny A. Korovin (1892–1964), professor of international law,

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

Maksim Kovalevsky Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky (Russian: Максим Максимович Ковалевский; 8 September 1851 – 5 April 1916) was a Russian jurist and the main authority on sociology in the Russian Empire. He was vice-president (1895) and p ...

(1851–1916), professor of legal history at St. Petersburg University *

Friedrich Martens Friedrich Fromhold Martens, or Friedrich Fromhold von Martens,, french: Frédéric Frommhold (de) Martens ( – ) was a diplomat and jurist in service of the Russian Empire who made important contributions to the science of international law. H ...

(1845–1909), considered the Russian "father" of modern international law * V.A. Nezabitovsky (1824–1883), jurist at

Kiev University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

Evgeny Pashukanis Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis (Russian: Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис; 23 February 1891 – 4 September 1937) was a Soviet legal scholar, best known for his work ''The General Theory of Law and Marxism''. Early li ...

(1891–1937), head of Soviet

Institute of State and Law The Institute of State and Law (ISL) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) (''Russian'': :ru:Институт государства и права РАН, Институт государства и права :ru:Российская акад� ...

, executed by Stalin in the

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* {{Interlanguage link multi, Iosif Alekseyevich Pokrovsky, ru, 3=Покровский, Иосиф Алексеевич (1868 — 1920), Russian lawyer, professor, and doctor of

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John Quigley (academic) John B. Quigley (born 1940) is a professor of law at the Moritz College of Law at the Ohio State University, where he is the Presidents' Club Professor of Law. In 1995 he was recipient of the Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award. Born ...

, professor of law at the

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at the

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Dmitry Samokvasov Dmitry Yakovlevich Samokvasov (russian: Дмитрий Яковлевич Самоквасов; 1843 — 1911) was a Russian archaeologist and legal historian who excavated the Black Grave in Chernigov and several other sites important for the hi ...

(1843–1911), Russian archaeologist and legal historian *

Peter Berngardovich Struve Peter (or Pyotr or Petr) Berngardovich Struve (russian: Пётр Бернга́рдович Стру́ве; pronounced ; 26 January 1870 in Perm – 22 February 1944 in Paris) was a Russian political economist, philosopher, historian and editor ...

(1870–1944), father of legal Marxism *

Mikhail Taube Baron Mikhail Alexandrovich Taube (May 15, 1869, Pavlovsk, Russian Empire – November 29, 1961; Paris, France) was a famous Russian international lawyer, statesman and legal historian. Being a Catholic converted from Russian Orthodoxy, Taube came ...

(1869–1961), scholar of international law *

Grigory Tunkin Grigory Ivanovich Tunkin (russian: Григорий Иванович Тункин) ( – 1993) was a Soviet jurist, diplomat, Corresponding Member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1974), and a Meritorious Scientist of the RSFSR (1972). Early l ...

(1906–1993), professor of international law at

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