Prof. Sharlet a panelist on post-communist courts

Robert Sharlet, Chauncey Winters Research Professor of Political Science, served as chair and commentator of a panel on post-communist courts and politics at the Law & Society Association national conference in Pittsburgh last June. He also was on a panel on Russian civil law development at an international conference at Leiden University in The Netherlands in September. He recently published  "Russia in the Middle: State-Building and the Rule of Law" in After Communism: Perspectives on Democracy, edited by D.R. Kelley (University of Arkansas Press, 2003). His recommendations to the Kyrgyz Republic have been included in Analysis of the Constitutional Amendments for the Kyrgyz Republic (American Bar Association, August, 2003).