Office Location
MU 324N
Phone Number
416-946-8959
Fax Number
416-946-8939
Email Address
Area Group(s)
Education
- B.A., Harvard University
- M.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Peter H. Solomon
Professor Emeritus
Biography
Specializes in Soviet and post-Soviet politics and in the politics of criminal justice in various countries. Author of Soviet Criminologists and Criminal Policy (1978); Criminal Justice Policy, From Research to Reform (1983); Soviet Criminal Justice under Stalin (1996); co-author of Courts and Transition in Russia: The Challenge of Judicial Reform (2000); and editor of Reforming Justice in Russia, 1864-1996 (1997). His current research includes (1) judicial and legal reform in contemporary Russia and Ukraine; (2) courts, law and politics in authoritarian and transitional regimes; and (3) criminal policy in post-communist states.
Research Interests
- Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics
- Politics of Criminal Justice in Various Countries