The UN General Assembly Resolutions: Their Nature and Significance in the Context of the Russian War Against Ukraine (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society)

This book begins with an examination of the powers of the UN General Assembly and the legal character of its resolutions, analyzing the UN Charter and related documents, as well as the interpretation of relevant provisions by the International Court of Justice, the General Assembly itself, and international legal doctrine.

The author analyzes the UN General Assembly resolutions from 2014 through 2023 on the territorial integrity of Ukraine, condemnation of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, war crimes committed by its political and military leadership and Russian citizens, the legal responsibility of the Russian Federation and its citizens, as well as the parameters of a future just and lasting peace.

Oleksiy Kresin, is Dr. Hab., Professor, Associate of the International Academy of Comparative Law. He is Head of the Center of Comparative Jurisprudence at the Koretsky Institute of State and Law in the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Research Fellow at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Palermo, Professor of Comparative Law at the Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics. He is the author and editor of: Peacekeeping Operations in Ukraine (London, 2019), Comparative Legal Studies: 1750 to 1835. Approaches to Conceptualization (London, 2019), Discovering the Unexpected: Comparative Legal Studies in Eastern and Central Europe (Clark, New Jersey, 2021), Comparative Law in Warsaw: 1800-1835 (Clark, New Jersey, 2021), The Interaction of Legal Systems: Post-Soviet Approaches (London, 2015), Foundations of comparative law: methods and typologies (London, 2011) and other monographs.

William E. Butler is John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University; Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University of London (University College London); Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine.