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Mezhdunarodnoe pravo (International Law), 2d rev. ed.
Mezhdunarodnoe pravo [International Law]. 2d rev. ed. Edited by V. I. Kuznetsov and B. R. Tuzmukhamedov. Moscow: Izd-vo Norma, 2007. Pp. 944. *
Sometime about 1938 in the former Soviet Union--after E. A. Korovin (1892-1964) and E. B. Pashukanis (1891-1937), who was ultimately executed, had each been savagely criticized for textbooks on international law under their respective individual authorships--it was determined that textbooks should, as a rule, be under collective authorship. Korovin and F. I. Kozhevnikov (1903-98) persisted with single-author contributions through 1946 as a stopgap, but in 1947 the first collectively prepared text on public international law appeared under the editorship of V. N. Durdenevskii (1899-1963) and S. B. Krylov (1888-1958), superseded in 1951 by another collectively prepared volume edited by Korovin and Krylov, and by yet another in 1957, edited by Kozhevnikov and others. In this respect the international lawyers followed Soviet jurists in oth...See the full content of this document
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