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Books Received, C. C. S.

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

ACCESS TO ENERGY: 2000 AND AFTER

By Melvin A. Conant

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1979. Pp. 134.

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THE CHEYENNE WAY: CONFLICT AND CASE LAW IN PRIMITIVE JURISPRUDENCE

By K.N. Llewellyn and E. Adamson Hoebel Norman:

University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. Pp. 360.

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CHINESE LEGAL TRADITION UNDER THE MONGOLS: THE CODE OF 1291 AS RECONSTRUCTED

By Paul Heng-chao Ch'en.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Pp. 205.

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EUROPEAN CAPITAL MARKETS: TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT

By Bruno H. Solnik

Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1973. Pp. 114.

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MODERN INTERNATIONAL LAW

By R.C. Hingorani

Oceana: Dobbs …

Foreign Discovery And U.S. Antitrust Policy--The Conflict Resolving Mechanisms, Donald L. Flexner

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

A look back at the last thirty years of United States antitrust's foreign "voyages of discovery" among friendly nations reveals a picture too often resembling not so much an era of good feeling as a thirty years war. Following hard upon Judge Hand's famous formulation of the "effects" doctrine in Alcoa in 1946 the Antitrust Division conducted a series of investigations in which compulsory process was used to seek documents located in foreign nations. Prodded by what they viewed as U.S. antitrust authorities' impermissible overreaching, the affected countries began to enact defensive "blocking statutes." The passage by Canada's Ontario Province …

Book Reviews, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Book Reviews

MERCHANTS OF GRAIN Dan Morgan New York: The Viking Press,1979. Pp. xiv, 387. $14.95.

Reviewed by Leo V. Mayer

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THE DISCIPLINE OF LAW Lord Denning London: Butterworths, 1979. Pp. xxii, 331.

Reviewed by P. F. Ashman

Department Of Justice Opinion Letter, Patricia M. Wald

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Department of Justice supports the main purpose of these bills, that is, expeditious exposure of, and effective opposition to, secret cartel arrangements supported by foreign governments that cause direct injury in U. S. commerce. The Department of Justice also welcomes support for accelerated efforts toward international resolution of restrictive anticompetitive business practices. However, the Department, for the reasons stated above, recommends against enactment of H.R. 13921 and H.R. 13922 in their present forms.

We do believe the continued exploration and discussion of the need for enactment of a reporting requirement for foreign, governmentally-involved, cartels would be worthwhile. We have …