Phone: 217-333-6711
Email: pmaggs@law.uiuc.edu
A.B., J.D. Harvard University
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Professor Maggs graduated from both Harvard College and Harvard Law School with honors. After law school, he attended Leningrad State University (now St. Petersburg State University), as a graduate student and later served as an Associate at the Harvard Russian Research Center and as a Research Associate at Harvard Law School. Considered by many as the foremost United States scholar on Soviet and post-Soviet law, Professor Maggs is a leading expert in the entire body of Russian law. Since 1994, he has served as a consultant for USAID contractors and the World Bank on numerous law reform projects in the former Soviet Union, including legislative drafting and educational projects in Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakstan, Kyrgystan, Russia, and Ukraine. He has also completed projects on Soviet law for the U.S. Department of State, and served as Director and Legal Reform Specialist for the Rule of Law Consortium in Washington, D.C. Professor Maggs has four times been a Fulbright Scholar, most recently in Spring 2002 as Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Trento in Italy. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, and has co-authored more than 20 books and numerous articles on Russian and Soviet law, American law of unfair trade practices, consumer protection, and computer law. The second edition of The Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which he translated with Alexei Zhiltsov and edited, was recently published in Moscow. In addition, he has been active in international intellectual property law reform, co-authoring Intelektual’naia sobstvennost’ (Intellectual Property), published by Iurist in Moscow (2001). He wrote a chapter entitled, "Russia's Writing Requirement under the Convention on Contracts for International Sale of Goods," in the recently published book, "Balancing of Interests Liber Amicorum" by Professor Peter Hay zum 70. Geburtstag (Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Recht und Wirtschaft GmbH, 2005), pp. 279-283. In 2006, Professor Maggs received the Distinguished Faculty Award for International Achievement, the highest award bestowed upon a University of Illinois faculty member for scholarship and service within the international community. He is a member of the Panel of Recommended Arbitrators for the International Commercial Arbitration Court of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Professor Maggs has served as a Visiting Professor at the George Washington University Law School and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Central and East European Legal Materials. He is a member of the American Law Institute and served on advisory committees for the development of Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition and for the revision of Articles 2 and 2A of the Uniform Commercial Code.
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