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Revision Of The United Nations Charter: A Study Of Various Approaches, Richard F. Scott
Revision Of The United Nations Charter: A Study Of Various Approaches, Richard F. Scott
Michigan Law Review
Although the United Nations Charter has survived rigorous tests of practice and application, all will doubtless agree that it should now undergo careful review if not thorough revision. Review in moderate terms is a matter of continuous international process, the Charter's structures and rules being regularly applied to the situations of everyday international life. As the necessary precondition to revision, however, the Charter will be subjected to a more deliberate, systematic, and searching review before concrete proposals for revision reach a competent international authority. Thus review is at once exploratory and promising. But revision is much more.
International Law-Jurisdictional Immunity Of United Nations Employees-The Gubitchev Case, Melvin J. Spencer S.Ed.
International Law-Jurisdictional Immunity Of United Nations Employees-The Gubitchev Case, Melvin J. Spencer S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Diplomatic officers are immune from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving state under well-recognized principles of customary international law, which principles are said to be a part of the law of the United States. As international organizations developed, certain privileges and immunities were given to their personnel by treaties or agreements and it appeared that by common consent of the family of nations their right to immunities might also come to be recognized as a principle of the law of nations. As yet the United States has not recognized such a principle and jurisdictional immunity here must still be provided …
International Law - Effect Of Recognition - Statute Of Limitations, John N. Seaman
International Law - Effect Of Recognition - Statute Of Limitations, John N. Seaman
Michigan Law Review
In 1917, the Provisional Government of Russia, which was recognized by the United States, had on deposit with defendant bank a large sum of money. During that year the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Soviet Government, and the bank decided to repudiate the debt, because deposits which the bank held in Russia had been confiscated to an amount exceeding that of the debt. The United States continued to recognize the Provisional Government as the de jure government of Russia until 1933. Before 1922, the bank communicated notice of the repudiation several times to Ambassador Bakhmeteff, representing the Provisional Government, …
The Non-Recognition Law Of The United States, Kimon A. Doukas
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."
Confusion Of Goods - Gold Seized During Russian Revolution
Confusion Of Goods - Gold Seized During Russian Revolution
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff in 1915-16 purchased from Russian banks $10,000,000 in alloy gold ingots, about 78% fine. These were entrusted to the Russian State Bank at Petrograd, deliverable on demand to the plaintiff after the war. In 1928 the State Bank of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics sent a shipment of refined gold ingots, 98% fine, to the defendant bank for deposit. The plaintiff seeks to replevin these ingots, alleging that their ingots in Petrograd were seized by the Bolsheviki during the revolution in 1917-18 and by them transported to Moscow, commingled with other gold, and then refined into ingots of …
International Law-Recognition Of Governments
International Law-Recognition Of Governments
Michigan Law Review
The decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently brought to a close an interesting piece of litigation which had been dragging its way through the courts for several years. The issue on the international law point was so sharply presented, the counsel so able, investigation so completely exhaustive, and the recovery so substantial that the case has been given full attention by the newspapers as well as by legal commentators.