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Decree “On the Legal Assessment of Decisions of Supreme Agencies of State Power of the RSFSR with Regard to the Status of Crimea adopted in 1954” - Russia and the Republics Legal Materials - Second Series
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Preview Page The Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation decrees: 1. to deem the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 5 February 1954, “On the Transfer of the Crimean Region from the Composition of the RSFSR to the Composition of the Ukrainian SSR”, as adopted in violation of the Constitution (Basic Law) of the RSFSR and the legislative procedure, as not having had legal force from the moment of adoption thereof.
William E. Butler, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law in the University of London, attached to University College London, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University, and Founder and Director of The Vinogradoff Institute.
An authority on the legal systems of Russia and former Soviet nations, he is the author, co-author, editor or translator of more than 3,500 books and articles on Russian, Soviet, Kazakhstan, Ukrainian, Uzbekistan, and other Commonwealth of Independent States legal systems. He has acted as Counsel to the EBRD, European Union, World Bank, United Nations, and Department for International Development of the United Kingdom on individual law reform projects.
The recipient of numerous honors for his service to Russian and international law, Professor Butler is Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law, and Member of the Russian Academy of Legal Sciences. He has been elected to his fourth term as a member of the Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration. In 2003 Professor Butler was awarded the G. I. Tunkin Medal by the Russian International Law Association.
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