The Civil Code of the Republic Uzbekistan as amended to 1 January 2023 is a central key normative legal act for foreign investors and of considerable interest to the comparative law community as a leading Central Asian model for a legal system in transition from the socialist legal tradition to a more market-oriented legal system. William E. Butler is the John Edward Fowler Distinguished Professor of Law, Penn State Dickinson Law, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, University College London, author of numerous works on post-Soviet legal systems, including Russian Law and Legal Institutions (3d ed.; 2021). He is among the most experienced translators of Russian-language legal texts.lxix, 475 pp.
