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SOVIET LEGAL INNOVATION AND THE LAW OF THE
WESTERN WORLD
The government of Soviet Russia wrote new laws for Russia that were as revo-
lutionary as its political philosophy. These new laws challenged social relations
as they had developed in Europe over centuries. These laws generated intense
interest in the West. To some, they were the harbinger of what should be done
in the West and, hence, a source for emulation. To others, they represented a
threat to the existing order. Western governments, like that of the Tsar, might
be at risk if they held to the old ways. Throughout the twentieth century,
Western governments remade their legal systems, incorporating an astonish-
ing number of laws that mirrored the new Soviet laws. Western law became
radically transformed over the course of the twentieth century, largely in the
direction of change that had been charted by the government of Soviet Russia.
John Quigley is the President’s Club Professor in Law at the Moritz College
of Law at the Ohio State University. After earning his ., ., and .
at Harvard University, he was an instructor in Russian at Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology, a Research Fellow at the faculty of law of Moscow State
University, and a research associate at Harvard Law School and has written
three books regarding Russian law. He has served as the editor of the Bulletin on
Current Research in Soviet and East European Law and has published numerous
articles on Soviet law.
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OTHER BOOKS BY JOHN QUIGLEY
Basic Laws on the Structure of the Soviet State
The Soviet Foreign Trade Monopoly
Law After Revolution
Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice
The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II
Flight into the Maelstrom: Sovie