Kahn, Jeffrey

Primary Articles

"International Travel and the U.S. Constitution," 56 UCLA Law Review -- (forthcoming December 2008).

"Vladimir Putin & the Rule of Law in Russia," 36 Ga. J. Int'l & Comp. L. -- (forthcoming June 2008) (lead article).

"Russia's Criminal Procedure Code Five Years Out," (with William Burnham) in 33 Review of Central & East European Law 1-93 (2008) (lead article).

“The Search for the Rule of Law in Russia,” 37 Georgetown J. Int’l L. 353-409 (2006).

“Russia’s ‘Dictatorship of Law’ and the European Court of Human Rights,” 29 Review of Central & East European Law 1-14 (2004).

“Russian Compliance with Articles Five & Six of the European Convention of Human Rights as a Barometer of Legal Reform & Human Rights in Russia,” 35 Mich. J. L. Reform 641-94 (2002).

“The Parade of Sovereignties: Establishing the Vocabulary of the New Russian Federalism,” 16 Post-Soviet Affairs 58-89 (2000).

Books

Federalism, Democratization and the Rule of Law in Russia Oxford University Press, 2002. (See reviews of this book under “Other,” below)

“What Is The New Russian Federalism?” in Archie Brown (ed.), Contemporary Russian Politics: A Reader Oxford University Press, 2001.

Speeches/Presentations

Public Lecture entitled "Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law" at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Affairs, April 17, 2008.

Presentation at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, entitled "International Travel and the U.S. Constitution During the War on Terror," Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, California, March 28, 2008.

Presentation at the AALS National Conference, Section on International Human Rights Law, entitled "Thoughts Toward Protection of a Right to International Travel," New York City, January 6, 2008.

Presentation of paper entitled “Adversarial Principles and the Case File in Russian Criminal Procedure,” at the Expert Seminar “Russia and the Council of Europe: Ten Years After,” Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), October 26, 2007.

Public lecture entitled “Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law” at the Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (“NUPI”) in Oslo, Norway, October 24, 2007.

Public lecture entitled “Vladimir Putin and the Rule of Law” at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar at St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, October 22, 2007.

Presentation of paper entitled “Russia’s Hybrid Criminal Procedure Code,” at the conference “Law and Society in the 21st Century: Transformations, Resistances, Futures,” Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, July 27, 2007.

Presentation of paper entitled “International Travel and the U.S. Constitution during the War on Terror,” at the Fourth Annual Gloucester Summer Legal Conference entitled “Law and Justice in the Age of Globalization,” Gloucester, England, July 21, 2007.

Nationally aired radio interview on “Morning Edition,” National Public Radio, July 16, 2007 (“Legal Affairs: Jury Selection Starts in Case Against Muslim Charity”).

Closed-Door Briefing and Presentation to the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia on “Drafting Legislation Concerning Forensic Examinations,” Ministry of Justice, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia, September 14, 2006 (in consultation with the United States Embassy and U.S. Department of Justice).

Lecture to the Krasnoyarsk Bar Association on “The Work of an American Criminal Defense Attorney,” Chamber of Advocates, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, October 28, 2005. (N.B. This lecture was delivered in an official capacity as a representative of the United States Department of Justice.)

"The Search for the Rule of Law in Russia," paper presented at the conference "Political Leadership, Political Institutions, and Political Culture in the Soviet Union and Russia," St. Antony's College, Oxford University, June 24-26, 2005.

Other

“Moscow vs. Kazan: Constitutions on Trial,” 3 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Russian Political Weekly 24 (20 June 2003) (http://www.rferl.org/reports/rpw/2003/06/24-200603.asp)

“Which Federalism is Right for Iraq?” Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Newsline (5 May 2003)(http://www.rferl.org/newsline/2003/05/050503.asp)

“Opening the Floodgates?” Moscow Times 8 (18 July 2002)(http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2002/07/18/006.html)

Review of Yoshiko M. Herrera, Imagined Communities: The Sources of Russian Regionalism. (Cambridge University Press, 2005), in 65 The Russian Review 354-56 (2006).

Review of William E. Butler, Russian Law, 2d Ed. (Oxford University Press, 2003), Civil Code of the Russian Federation, Parts I, II, and III (Oxford University Press, 2003), and Russian Company and Commercial Legislation (Oxford University Press, 2003), in 29 Review of Central and East European Law 421-28 (2004).

Review of Federalism, Democratization and the Rule of Law in Russia by William E. Butler, 100 Michigan Law Review 1444-52 (2002) (“... I have not seen a better account, or a more perceptive one, in any language. ... Kahn’s study is the best and the most thoughtful account available of the early experience.”);

Review of Federalism, Democratization and the Rule of Law in Russia by Donald Hancock, 64 Slavic Review 208-09 (2005) (“Jeffrey Kahn brings an exemplary combination of academic expertise to this meticulously researched and comprehensive analysis of the three overarching themes of Russian political development encapsulated in the title of his book. ... The editors at Oxford University Press would be well advised to establish a web site linked to the book that would enable Kahn to extend his analysis to include continuing territorial challenges to Russian federalism, Putin’s reelection, and his assault on bureaucrats as his next reform initiative.”).