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Indigenous Peoples And International Law Issues, S. James Anaya
Indigenous Peoples And International Law Issues, S. James Anaya
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Recent Publications: Puerto Rico, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus
Recent Publications: Puerto Rico, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus
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Ask yourself why you are reading a review of a book about a colony called Puerto Rico in a journal on international law. Isn't Puerto Rico a self-governing Commonwealth? Isn't it part of the United States? If you decide to buy the book, ask yourself where in the bookstore you should look for it. In the international relations section? The U.S. history section? A turn-of-the-century Supreme Court case analyzing the status of Puerto Rico (and other territories "acquired" by the United States in 1901) may provide some guidance: Puerto Rico is "foreign in a domestic sense."' Perhaps the bookstore has …