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William E. Butler
William E. Butler, is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University. He is a pre-eminent authority on the legal systems of the USSR, Russia and other post-Soviet countries, including countries of CIS, and also Mongolia. He is also extensively involved in the fields of comparative law, public and private international law. Butler is a noted bibliophile and bookplate collector. He is a citizen of the USA and Great Britain. In the early 1960s he attended lectures of John N. Hazard and Harold J. Berman, the founders of Soviet legal studies in the West. He is the holder of the following university degrees: B.A., the American University, 1961; M.A., the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 1963; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1966; LL.M., School of Law of the Academy University of Law, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1997; Ph.D., the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 1970 (for his dissertation “Soviet Union and the Law of the Sea”; LL.D., University of London, 1979.