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Epilog: Foreign Sovereign Immunity At Home And Abroad, Ingrid Wuerth
Epilog: Foreign Sovereign Immunity At Home And Abroad, Ingrid Wuerth
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Every author writing on U.S. law for this symposium notes that the extent to which the Executive Branch can make binding immunity determinations is an important issue going forward. In addition to Legal Adviser Koh, two other authors address this issue directly. Professor Peter Rutledge provides a typology of the various roles that the Executive Branch might play in immunity (and other) cases, distinguishing in particular between views articulated by the Executive Branch independently of ongoing litigation, and those expressed with respect to particular pending cases. And Lewis Yelin of the Department of Justice has contributed a major, comprehensive article …
Reconstruction And Constitution Building In Iraq, A. Kevin Reinhart, Gilbert S. Merritt
Reconstruction And Constitution Building In Iraq, A. Kevin Reinhart, Gilbert S. Merritt
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
I would like to thank Vanderbilt Law School and all of the many sponsors for the invitation, and especially the Foreign Service Legal Society whose officers worked so hard to put this together. I appreciate very much the opportunity to talk to you all about Iraq. I need to begin with sort of a prelude: the things that were part of my training are in a way irrelevant to what I was doing this summer. I was not there in a professional capacity, as an Islamicist; I was there instead as a volunteer for the International Rescue Committee (IRC). I …
Judicial Jurisdiction In The Conflict Of Laws Course: Adding A Comparative Dimension, Linda J. Silberman
Judicial Jurisdiction In The Conflict Of Laws Course: Adding A Comparative Dimension, Linda J. Silberman
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In this Article, Professor Silberman suggests that comparative law materials can usefully be introduced in the conflict of laws course. She proposes the subject of adjudicatory jurisdiction as a good place to start. She argues that a comparison of the U.S. approach with the English and European approaches (particularly under the Brussels Convention) is evidence of the desirability of a jurisdictional system grounded more on rules and/or discretion rather than on a constitutional standard of reasonableness. She takes issue with the contention of her colleague Professor Andreas Lowenfeld that "reasonableness" has been accepted as an international standard for the assertion …
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
JAPANESE CRIMINAL JUSTICE
By A. Didrick Castberg
New York, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990. Pp. 153. $42.95.
THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
By David P. Forsythe
Lexington, Massachusetts; Lexington Books, 1991. Pp. 209.$34.00.
FEDERAL COURTS AND THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PARADIGM By Kenneth C. Randall
Durham, North Carolina; Duke University Press. 1990. Pp. 295. $45.00.
ROMAN LAW AND COMPARATIVE LAW
By Alan Watson
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1991. Pp. 328. $50.00
THE U.S. CONSTITUTION AND FOREIGN POLICY
By Victoria Marie Kraft
New York, New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. Pp. 185. $45.00.
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Books Received, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
CIVIL JUDGMENT RECOGNITION AND THE INTEGRATION OF MULTIPLE STATE ASSOCIATIONS: CENTRAL AMERICA, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY
By Robert C. Casad
Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas, 1981. Pp. 258.$25.00.
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COMPARATIVE LAW YEARBOOK
VOL. 4, 1980
Edited by Dennis Campbell
The Hague/Boston/London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1981. Pp. 371.
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CONSTITUTION-MAKING: PRINCIPLES, PROCESS, PRACTICE
By Edward McWhinney
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.Pp. 231. $20.00.
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THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW OF THE SEA
Edited by Douglas M.Johnston
Gland, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1981. Pp. 419.
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: ENVIRONMENTS AND …
The 1977 Soviet Constitution: A Historical Comparison, Igor L. Kavass, Gary I. Christian
The 1977 Soviet Constitution: A Historical Comparison, Igor L. Kavass, Gary I. Christian
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Throughout the Soviet Union's history, its four constitutions have been a reflection of the political climate of the particular period. The documents thus viewed provide a historical and political benchmark against which life and thought in the U.S.S.R. may be fairly accurately gauged. When Brezhnev addressed the USSR Supreme Soviet on October 4, 1977, to recommend the inevitable adoption of the 1977 Constitution, he again stressed the historical perspective in which the document must be viewed. He stated: "We will adopt the new Constitution on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. This is not …
Books Received, C. C. S.
Books Received, C. C. S.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS IN EUROPE
Edited by R. M. Goode and K. R. Simmons Published for the Faculty of Laws; Queen Mary College, University of London Boston: A. W. Sijthoff, 1978. Pp. 448.
COMPARATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
By Mauro Cappelletti and William Cohen Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs -Merrill, 1979. Pp. 628.
COMPARATIVE LAW: WESTERN EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEMS
By John H. Merryman and David S. Clark Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs -Merrill, 1978. Pp. 1278.
THE DISCIPLINE OF LAW
By Lord Denning London: Butterworths,1979. Pp. 330.
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS BETWEEN STATES
By Guy S. Goodwin -Gill Oxford: Clarendon Press, …