Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - ARBITRATION IN THE SOVIET UNION
ARBITRATION IN THE SOVIET UNION by W.E. Butler, F.S.A., Professor of Comparative Law, University College London. Oceana Publications Inc., New York (1989, ix and 78 pp., plus 165 pp. Appendices). Hardback $75.
Since 1988, Soviet arbitration law and institutions have undergone several reforms in order to keep pace with the changes in the economy and the subsequent modifications of the Soviet foreign trade system. In this context, the book under review is welcome. It is divided into two parts. The first (pp. 1–80) treats the Soviet arbitral institutions and the main
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