Aron Trainin

Aron Naumovich Trainin was born on 26 June (July 8 in the Julian Calendar), 1883, in Vitebsk, Russian Empire. He died on 7 February 1957, in Moscow, Russia. Trainin graduated from Moscow University in 1908 and became a professor at Moscow State University in 1918, of Criminal Law.

Trainin was a Soviet jurist and criminologist, who came to prominence in the inter-war years as critical of the League of Nations for not doing enough to prosecute the those who waged war against peace. In 1937 Trainin published his 'The Defense of Peace and Criminal Law' in which he castigated the League of Nations for failing to make aggressive war a criminal offense and not providing for any sort of international court to punish aggressors.

Trainin later became a Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1946).

In 1947 and 1948 he served as vice-president of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. His major works were On Complicity (1941) and Elements of a Crime According to Soviet Criminal Law (1951).

Trainin was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.