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Professor Gordon B. Smith Ph.D., Indiana University (1976) M.A., Indiana University (1974) B.A. in Journalism, International Relations and Russian Iowa State University (1971) Email: smithg@sc.edu Gordon B. Smith is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Walker Institute. He is the author or editor of ten books and more than 40 articles and book chapters on Russian politics and law. His latest work (to be released shortly), Russia and its Constitution: Promise and Political Reality, is being published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers in Leiden, The Netherlands in cooperation with the Institute of East European Law and Russian Studies of Leiden University, the Universities of Trento and Graz, and the European Academy of Bolzano. He was a member of the National Advisory Board of the Rule of Law Consortium, a project designed to assist the Russians in reforming their legal system. He has also assisted with the introduction of jury trials in Russia, in conjunction with the American Bar Association. Dr. Smith has been a fellow of the Harvard University Russian Research Center, the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies of the Smithsonian Institution, and a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies of Birmingham University in England and the Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. In 1975-1976, he was a Fulbright exchange professor at Leningrad State University Law School. In addition, he has received research support from the National Council for Soviet and East European Research, the Earhart Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Toyota Foundation. Professor Smith frequently travels to the former Soviet Union, conducting research and lecturing to Smithsonian groups. |
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