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Developments In The Law Of School Desegregation, T. A. Smedley
Developments In The Law Of School Desegregation, T. A. Smedley
Vanderbilt Law Review
Eighteen years after the Brown decision declared that racially dual school systems violate constitutional rights of students and therefore must be abolished,' the developments in this area of life and law still primarily involve efforts to find an answer to the practical problem which arose immediately after the Brown ruling: How does one abolish a dual school system? Today, relatively few people openly contend that public schools ought to be operated on a racially segregated basis, but the problem of identifying and implementing acceptable means of achieving desegregation has proved to be virtually unsolvable. Although the federal courts initially displayed …
Recent Developments, Law Review Staff
Recent Developments, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
The institution of criminal charges against critical or disfavored legislators by the King of England was the prime factor prompting the long struggle for parliamentary privilege and, in the context of the American system of separation of powers, is the predominant thrust of the speech or debate clause. If the privilege of legislative immunity is to perform its traditional function of permitting legislators to carry out their legislative functions without fear of prosecution or harrassment from the executive and judicial branches, it should be applied broadly to effectuate its intended purpose of preserving the independence of the legislature and public …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Conflict of Laws--Torts--Lex Loci Delicti Is Proper Law When Parties Are Domiciled in Different Jurisdictions Unless Displacing That Law Advances Forum State's Substantive Law Purposes Without Impeding Interstate Relations or Predictability of Result
Plaintiff, an Ontario domiciliary, brought an action in New York for the wrongful death of her husband, also a domiciliary of Ontario,who was killed in a collision in that province' while a passenger in an automobile driven by defendant's intestate, a New York domiciliary. Defendant pleaded as an affirmative defense the Ontario guest statute, which restricts a guest's recovery to damages for injuries sustained only as a …
Book Reviews, Harry H. Ransom, Nicolas M. Matte
Book Reviews, Harry H. Ransom, Nicolas M. Matte
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND THE CONSTITUTION
By Louis Henkin
Mineola, New York: Foundation Press, 1972. Pp. 535. $11.50.
Harry Howe Ransom (reviewer)
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THE CONCEPT OF STATE JURISDICTION IN INTERNATIONAL SPACE LAW
By Imre Anthony Csabafi
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff,1971. Pp. xix, 155. $9.10.
Nicolas Mateesco Matte (reviewer)
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Antitrust--Horizontal Territorial Restraint--Allocation of Territories Among Members of Cooperative Purchasing Association Is Per Se Violative of Section 1 of the Sherman Act
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Antitrust--Robinson--Patman Price Discrimination Act--Complaint Charging That Profits Derived from Interstate Sales Were Used To Underwrite Allegedly Discriminatory Intrastate Price-Cutting Practices States a Cause of Action Under Section 2(a)
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Bankruptcy--Corporate Reorganization-Trustee in Reorganization Lacks Standing To Sue Indenture Trustee on Behalf of Debenture Holders
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Constitutional Law--Commerce Clause--Exactions on Airport Users by Local Governments Measured by Number of Enplaning Passengers Are Constitutionally Valid
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Constitutional Law--Right to Speedy Trial--State-Imposed Five-Year Delay Does Not Abridge Right to Speedy …