Bogdan Alexandrovich Kistiakowsky

Bogdan Alexandrovich Kistiakowsky (1863–1920) was a Russian jurist.

After studies in Berlin, Heidelberg and Strasbourg, he taught law at the University of Moscow and in Yaroslavl. His writings were influenced by leading German thinkers, notably neo-Kantian philosophers and Georg Jellinek. He was a friend of Max Weber, whose views on the need for reform in Russian politics he shared.

Through his writings, Kistiakowsky became a leading advocate of constitutionalism in Russia. His principal work, Social Science and Law (1916), attempted to establish a theory of law in the context of the social sciences, through a critical analysis of the principal schools of legal theory of his time.