Augusts Rumpēters (1899-1978) was a member of the Supreme Court Senate of the Republic of Latvia during its first period of independence, that is, a "justice of the Supreme Court." His treatise on Soviet aggression against the Baltics, published in 1974, is still one of the best sources extant examining the Soviet-Baltic relationship regarding mutual agreements and international law—and how the Soviet Union abrogated those agreements and violated international law in coercing the Baltics into accepting Soviet troops and then invading and annexing them.