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Congress's International Legal Discourse, Kevin L. Cope May 2015

Congress's International Legal Discourse, Kevin L. Cope

Michigan Law Review

Despite Congress’s important role in enforcing U.S. international law obligations, the relevant existing literature largely ignores the branch. This omission may stem partly from the belief, common among both academics and lawyers, that Congress is generally unsympathetic to or ignorant of international law. Under this conventional wisdom, members of Congress would rarely if ever imply that international law norms should impact otherwise desirable domestic legislation. Using an original dataset comprising thirty years of legislative histories of pertinent federal statutes, this Article questions and tests that view. The evidence refutes the conventional wisdom. It shows instead that, in legislative debates over …


The Making Of International Agreements: Congress Confronts The Executive, Michigan Law Review Feb 1985

The Making Of International Agreements: Congress Confronts The Executive, Michigan Law Review

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A Review of The Making of International Agreements: Congress Confronts the Executive by Loch K. Johnson


Prior Consultation In International Law: A Study Of State Practice, Michigan Law Review Feb 1984

Prior Consultation In International Law: A Study Of State Practice, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Prior Consultation in International Law: A Study of State Practice by Frederic L. Kirgis, Jr.


How Nations Behave, 2d Ed., Michigan Law Review Mar 1980

How Nations Behave, 2d Ed., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Book Notice about How Nations Behave. 2d ed. by Louis Henkin


Whiteman: Digest Of International Law, William W. Bishop Jr. May 1965

Whiteman: Digest Of International Law, William W. Bishop Jr.

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Digest of International Law. Edited by Marjorie M. Whiteman


The Act Of State Doctrine After Sabbatino, William J. Bogaard Jan 1965

The Act Of State Doctrine After Sabbatino, William J. Bogaard

Michigan Law Review

The United States Supreme Court recently decided, in Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino, that American courts must enforce a recognized foreign government's expropriation decree even though the decree violates international law. The Court, contrary to the views of respected international lawyers, found this result dictated by the "act of state doctrine," which bars American courts from reviewing the validity of another nation's official acts. The decision, amid frequent revolutionary confiscations and national programs of expropriation, seriously draws into question the wisdom of further investments in developing countries. This is unfortunate because American foreign investments benefit the receiving country …


The Non-Recognition Law Of The United States, Kimon A. Doukas May 1937

The Non-Recognition Law Of The United States, Kimon A. Doukas

Michigan Law Review

We speak of nations as being equal, independent and sovereign within the fixed confines of their physical boundaries. As aptly stated by our Supreme Court, in the civilized world of today, "Every sovereign State is bound to respect the independence of every other sovereign State, and the courts of one country will not sit in judgment on the acts of the government of another done within its own territory."


Book Reviews, C D. Allin Apr 1921

Book Reviews, C D. Allin

Michigan Law Review

The Equality of States in International Law. By Edwin De Witt Dickinson. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ig"o. Harvard Studies in Jurisprudence, Vol. III.) Pp. ix, 424.


Retaliation And Neutral Rights, Hessel Edward Yntema May 1919

Retaliation And Neutral Rights, Hessel Edward Yntema

Michigan Law Review

The readjustment of international law to the ever-changing conditions of maritime warfare has always presented problems of extreme difficulty. Particularly is this the case, when, as in the Napoleonic wars and the recent European conflict, belligerents, falling back upon the exceptional plea of necessity, attempt to modify the rights of neutral powers to their own advantage or even to involve them in the conflict. A question of this character, namely, the extent to which a belligerent in pursuing retaliatory measures against 'alleged violations of international law by his opponent, may thereby abridge the admitted rights of neutrals, was raised in …