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William E. Butler

Address: 

Dickinson School of Law
Pennsylvania State University
150 South College Street
Carlisle, PA 17013
USA

Phone Number: 
(1-717) 240-5227/776-7359
Fax Number: 
(1-717) 240-5126
Born: 
1939, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Languages: 
English Russian French
Nationalities: 
USA
British
Education: 
B.A. 1961, American University
M.A. 1963, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, J.D., 1966, Harvard Law School
LL.M. 1997, School of Law, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences
Ph.D., 1970, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
LL.D. 1979, University of London
LL.D.(hon.), Kyiv University of Law, 2012
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Admitted to District of Columbia bar (1967), United States Supreme Court 1970, Licensed in Republic Uzbekistan 1996; Russian Federation 1997
Present Position: 
: John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University (2005-)
Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London (2005-)
Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Professor of International and comparative Law, Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences
Foreign Academician, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine
National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine (2012)
Professional Experience: 

Visiting Professor of Law, New York University Law School (1978); Ritsumeikan University (1985); Harvard Law School (1986 1987); Washington and Lee University (2005).

Professional Associations: 

Associé, International Academy of Comparative Law; Member, Union of Jurists (Russia); Member, ASIL; Member, American Foreign Law Association; Association of Maritime Law (Russia); Kazakhstan Association of Business Lawyers; Russian Association of International Law; American Bar Association.

Arbitration Experience: 

Member, Russian International Court of Commercial Arbitration (1995 ); International Court of Commercial Arbitration of Ukraine (2012-); International Court of Commercial Arbitration of Kazakhstan (2012-); arbitrator and president of arbitration tribunals, Stockholm and London; expert witness (Soviet Law, Russian Federation, and other CIS jurisdictions); and associate counsel in international arbitrations held in Moscow, London and the United States regarding all aspects of commercial, criminal, family and other branches of Russian and CIS legal systems.

Areas of Specialization: 
Admiralty & Maritime
International Law
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

Russian Law (3d ed; 2009); Russia & The Republics: Legal Materials (looseleaf service, 2006-); Soviet Arbitration Law (1990); Civil Code of the Russian Federation (2010); Russian Legal Texts (Kluwer, 1998); Civil Code of Republic Uzbekistan (2007); Russian Public Law (3d ed.; 2013); Civil Code of Republic Kazakhstan (2008); Civil Code of Republic Belarus (1998); Civil Code of Ukraine and Law of Ukraine on Private International Law (2011); Law of Treaties in Russia and Other Countries of the CIS (2002); Russian Law and Legal Institutions (2014); Russian Inheritance Law (2014); Russian Family Law (2015); and others. For a full bibliography, see: International and Comparative Law: A Personal Bibliography (2015).