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The Alien's Access To Local Remedies: The African Commonwealth Countries' Experience, Ivan L. Head
The Alien's Access To Local Remedies: The African Commonwealth Countries' Experience, Ivan L. Head
Vanderbilt Law Review
Of the 27 members of the Commonwealth of Nations, 11 are located on the continent of Africa. They range in size from Nigeria, with an area of 356,000 square miles and a population of 60 million, to The Gambia, with an area of 4,000 square miles and a population of 350,000 persons. Prior to 1957 all of the 11 States were colonies of the British crown. In little more than a decade they have all gained political independence-one hundred and six million people residing in autonomous communities which are, in the words of the 1926 Balfour Declaration, "equal in status, …
Amendments To The Federal Rules: The Function Of A Continuing Rules Committee, Charles A. Wright
Amendments To The Federal Rules: The Function Of A Continuing Rules Committee, Charles A. Wright
Vanderbilt Law Review
No development in American procedural history in the last century has exceeded in importance the adoption by the United States Supreme Court in 1938 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. These rules, the product of a distinguished Advisory Committee, introduced a system and a philosophy differing as markedly from the code pleading then in vogue as code pleading, in its day, had differed from common-law pleading. This new system has worked well in the federal courts, so well indeed as to stimulate a reexamination of procedure in many of the states, with nearly a dozen jurisdiction shaving already adopted …