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The U.S.-Soviet Maritime Agreement: A New Plan For Bilateral Cooperation, Jean S. Gerard
The U.S.-Soviet Maritime Agreement: A New Plan For Bilateral Cooperation, Jean S. Gerard
Fordham International Law Journal
The author starts with the premise that the U.S.-Soviet Maritime Agreement, which was signed on October 14, 1972, and renegotiated as of December 19, 1972, is unique. Before the agreement was signed, only about 6 percent of U.S.-Soviet trade was being carried in U.S. bottoms, whereas 94 percent was being carried in Soviet bottoms. The author highlights that one significant achievement of the Agreement was the reciprocal opening to access of forty U.S. ports and forty Soviet ports by commercial, scientific, and merchant marine training ships of the two nations upon four days advance notive. The selection of ports was …
The Defection Of Viktor Belenko: The Use Of International Law To Justify Political Decisions, James P. Eyster, Ii
The Defection Of Viktor Belenko: The Use Of International Law To Justify Political Decisions, James P. Eyster, Ii
Fordham International Law Journal
This article explores how Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States, at the time of publication, had used international law to justify political decisions.
The Emerging Moral Framework Of International Law, Peter L. Destefano, Jr.
The Emerging Moral Framework Of International Law, Peter L. Destefano, Jr.
Fordham International Law Journal
This article explores the idea that, at the time of publication, despite several centuries of development, there was no settled conception of international law, whether there was “international law” and if there was, what were its essential characteristics. The author starts with the assertion that international law resembles a municipal legal system, insofar as its subjects are bound, by external sanctions, to its right-creating and power-conferring principles. A State will, in a well-ordered international community, be shaped and guided in its acts and judgments by an internal sense of right and justice; just as the punishment of a child will …
Emerging Data Protection In Europe; Community Law Through The Cases, Albert J. Kostelny, Jr.
Emerging Data Protection In Europe; Community Law Through The Cases, Albert J. Kostelny, Jr.
Fordham International Law Journal
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