Peter Solomon elected Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History

Professor Peter Solomon, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Criminology and Law at the University of Toronto, has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History. Professor Solomon is recognized in Western scholarship as the foremost authority on Russian law, in both Soviet and post-Soviet variants. He has been studying and publishing in this field for almost fifty years, and has encouraged, nurtured, and inspired several generations of scholars interested in the not obvious and nonetheless vitally important question of how Russia’s legal system works. Read More

Election as an Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Legal History is the highest honor the Society can confer. It recognizes distinguished historians whose scholarship has shaped the broad discipline of legal history and influenced the work of others.