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Globalizing Property Law: An Institutional Analysis, Amnon Lehavi
Globalizing Property Law: An Institutional Analysis, Amnon Lehavi
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article identifies the key role that institutions play in moving toward an effective cross-border regime in property law. Property is based on an in rem principle, which should provide a single system for ranking rights, powers, and priorities in assets that applies to all interested parties. In a global context, this feature of property law requires a cross-border legal ordering by an array of domestic and supranational institutions: legislative, administrative, and adjudicative.
The Article argues that the present fragmentation of property norms across national borders, and the incompleteness of supranational institutions that deal with property law, may place limits …
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Book Received, Law Library Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
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Aspects of the International Banking Safety Net
By G.G. Johnson, with Richard K. Abrams
Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1983. Pp. v, 36. $5.00
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The Soviet Viewpoint
By Georgi Arbatov and Willem Oltmans
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983. Pp. xviii, 219. $13.95
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The Law of Corporate Groups: Procedural Problems in the Law of Parent and Subsidiary Corporations
By Phillip I. Blumberg
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Pp. xxxii, 527. $65.00
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Iraq & Iran: Roots of Conflict
By Tareq Y. Ismael
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 226. $24.00 cloth; $12.95 paper …
Foreign Sovereign Immunity--The Status Of Legal Entities In Socialist Countries As Defendants Under The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Of 1976, Jere G. Thompson
Foreign Sovereign Immunity--The Status Of Legal Entities In Socialist Countries As Defendants Under The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Of 1976, Jere G. Thompson
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) grants an "agency or instrumentality" of a foreign state substantially the same immunities that are provided to the state itself under the Act. An agency or instrumentality of a foreign state is defined in section 1603(b) of the FSIA. Section 1603(b) lists the following three criteria that must be met by an entity in order to qualify as an agency or instrumentality for sovereign immunity purposes: (1) the entity must be a legally independent person under the laws of the foreign state in which it was created; (2) the entity must be …