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Inconsistency In The United States Courts Of Appeals: Dimensions And Mechanisms For Resolution, Stephen L. Wasby
Inconsistency In The United States Courts Of Appeals: Dimensions And Mechanisms For Resolution, Stephen L. Wasby
Vanderbilt Law Review
This Article is based on an extensive study of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Eighth and Ninth Circuits that focused on two interrelated questions. The first question was how judges in geographically large circuits communicate with each other when they are not all stationed in the same city.' The focus of this Article is on the second question-the problem of intracircuit inconsistency. The study is based on largely open-ended interviews with the Ninth Circuit's active-duty and senior circuit judges and with some active-duty and senior district judges who had sat most frequently with the court of appeals …
The Beagle Channel Affair: A Failure In Judicial Persuasion, David M. Himmelreich
The Beagle Channel Affair: A Failure In Judicial Persuasion, David M. Himmelreich
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
It has been demonstrated that although the Argentine Declaration of Nullity does not contain valid legal arguments for rejection, it does indicate weaknesses in the Court's opinion that make it vulnerable to rejection for political reasons. Specifically, the Court's remarks about Chilean possession of disputed islands outside the hammer were especially ill-advised. In addition, the Court failed to clearly articulate the reason for dividing the small Channel islands by appurtenance while refusing to do so for PNL. Finally, the Court's refusal to apply an Oceanic principle, even in a narrow sense, was questionable in a case in which the legal …
Books Received, C. C. S.
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 …