Peter B. Maggs
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LOCATION: Champaign, IL, United States
Peer and Sarah Pederson Professor of Law, University of Illinois, Champaign. Author of Changes in Soviet Law under Gorbachev. Co-author of The Soviet Economic System: A Legal Analysis, The Soviet Legal System: The Law in the 1980s, and others.
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Soviet law, law developed in Russia after the communist seizure of power in 1917 and imposed throughout the Soviet Union in the 1920s. After World War II, the Soviet legal model also was imposed on Soviet-dominated regimes in eastern and central Europe. Later, ruling communist parties in China,…
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