The Legal Dimension in Cold-War Interactions: Some Notes from the Field
Biographical note
Tatiana Borisova (2005) in History, Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences, PhD candidate in Law (Leiden University), is Assistant Professor at Russia's National Research University Higher School of Economics. She has published extensively on Russian political and legal history.
William B. Simons, J.D. (1974) University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, M.A. (1974) in Russian Language and Literature, Norwich University Russian School, and Ph.D. (1997) in Law, Leiden University, is Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu’s Institute of Constitutional and International Law and Centre for EU-Russian Studies and, also, Professor of East European Law at Leiden University. His publications are in the field of Russian, East European and comparative law.
William B. Simons, J.D. (1974) University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, M.A. (1974) in Russian Language and Literature, Norwich University Russian School, and Ph.D. (1997) in Law, Leiden University, is Visiting Professor at the University of Tartu’s Institute of Constitutional and International Law and Centre for EU-Russian Studies and, also, Professor of East European Law at Leiden University. His publications are in the field of Russian, East European and comparative law.
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