Butler, W. E., review of Richard S. Wortman, The Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness, in Slavonic and East European Review, 57.2 (1979), pp. 296–97, doi:10.2307/4207838

Butler, W. E., review of Guido Kisch, Das Fischereirecht im Deutschordensgebiet: Beiträge zu seiner Geschichte, in Slavonic and East European Review, 57.4 (1979), p. 634, doi:10.2307/4207959

Butler, W. E., review of Gordon B. Smith, The Soviet Procuracy and the Supervision of Administration, in Slavonic and East European Review, 58.1 (1980), pp. 145–47, doi:10.2307/4208006

Butler, W. E., review of F. J. M. Feldbrugge, The Constitutions of the USSR and The Union Republics: Analysis, Texts, Reports, in Slavonic and East European Review, 59.1 (1981), pp. 143–44, doi:10.2307/4208250

Butler, W. E., review of Jan S. Adams, Citizen Inspectors in the Soviet Union: The People's Control Committee, in Slavonic and East European Review, 59.1 (1981), pp. 144–45, doi:10.2307/4208251

Butler, W. E., review of John Yin, The Soviet View on the Use of Force in International Law, in Slavonic and East European Review, 60.2 (1982), p. 316, doi:10.2307/4208532

Butler, W. E., review of Aryeh L. Unger, Constitutional Development in the USSR: A Guide to the Soviet Constitutions, in Slavonic and East European Review, 60.4 (1982), pp. 635–36, doi:10.2307/4208603

Butler, W. E., review of K. Westen, B. Meissner, F.-C. Schroeder, Der Schutz individueller Rechte und Interessen im Recht sozialistischer Staaten, in Slavonic and East European Review, 61.2 (1983), p. 317, doi:10.2307/4208684

Butler, W. E., review of D. H. Kaiser, The Growth of the Law in Medieval Russia, in Slavonic and East European Review, 61.3 (1983), pp. 448–49, doi:10.2307/4208718

Butler, W. E., review of Hannu Tapani Klami, The Legalists: Finnish Legal Science in the Period of Autonomy, 1809-1917, in Slavonic and East European Review, 61.3 (1983), pp. 475–76, doi:10.2307/4208741

Butler, W. E., review of M. Fincke, Handbuch der Sowjetverfassung, in Slavonic and East European Review, 62.4 (1984), pp. 623–24, doi:10.2307/4209008

Butler, W. E., review of Thomas C. Owen, The Corporation under Russian Law, 1800-1917. A Study in Tsarist Economic Policy, in Slavonic and East European Review, 70.2 (1992), pp. 348–49, doi:10.2307/4210964

Butler, W. E., review of Robert Sharlet, Soviet Constitutional Crisis from De-Stalinization to Disintegration, in Slavonic and East European Review, 73.4 (1995), pp. 783–84, doi:10.2307/4211965

Butler, W. E., review of Rett R. Ludwikowski, Constitution-Making in the Region of Former Soviet Dominance with Full Texts of All New Constitutions Ratified through July 1995, in Slavonic and East European Review, 77.2 (1999), pp. 390–91, doi:10.2307/4212893

Butler, W. E., review of O. A. Omel'chenko, Traditsii i nasledie russkogo prava, in Slavonic and East European Review, 87.1 (2009), pp. 189–90, doi:10.2307/25479378

Butler, W. E., review of Frances Nethercott, Russian Legal Culture Before and After Communism: Criminal Justice, Politics, and the Public Sphere. BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies, 39, in Slavonic and East European Review, 88.4 (2010), pp. 779–81, doi:10.2307/41061942

Butler, W. E., review of Pomeranz, William E., Law and the Russian State: Russia's Legal Evolution from Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin, in Slavonic and East European Review, 97.3 (2019), pp. 557–59, doi:10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.97.3.0557

Butler, W. E., review of William Partlett and Herbert Küpper, The Post-Soviet as Post-Colonial: A New Paradigm for Understanding Constitutional Dynamics in the Former Soviet Empire, in Slavonic and East European Review, 101.1 (2023), pp. 187–89, doi:10.1353/see.2023.a897279