G. I. Tunkin: Selected Works

Six decades on, Tunkin's classic Theory of International Law continues to inform Russian concepts of the international legal process and has not been replaced by a successor. Its authoritative English translation, long out of print, appears here with a newly-compiled extensive bibliography of his writings and original translations of two predecessor works unknown to the international legal community, the abstract of his doctoral (habilitation) dissertation on the Korean War (1954) and his pioneering Fundamental Principles of Contemporary International Law (1956).

Grigorii Ivanovich Tunkin (1906-1993), an international lawyer, diplomat and academician, was the Legal Advisor to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs for many years and thereafter Professor and Head of the Chair of International Law, Moscow State Lomonosov University.

William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law, and Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University College London. The author of numerous works on post-Soviet legal systems, including Russian Law and Legal Institutions (3d ed.; 2021), he has over sixty years of experience as a translator of Soviet and CIS materials ranging from articles, major treatises, codes, legislative acts and treaties to other international and comparative legal materials.

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