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Judging Judicial Appointment Procedures, S. I. Strong

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Over the last several years, judicial appointment procedures in the United States have become increasingly intractable. Members of both parties are seen to engage in political gamesmanship, calling the legitimacy of the appointment process into question and decreasing public confidence in both the legislature and the judiciary. Questions are even beginning to arise about whether and to what extent the United States is complying with the rule of law.

Although numerous solutions have been proposed, one alternative has not yet been considered: international law. As paradoxical as it may seem, the best and perhaps only feasible solution to quintessentially domestic …

Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Books Received

CONTRACT LAW IN THE U.S.S.R. AND THE UNITED STATES, VOL. I: HISTORY AND GENERAL CONCEPT

By E. Allan Farnsworth and Viktor P. Mozolin

Washington, D.C.: International Law Institute, 1987. Pp.xiii, 340. $35.00

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FOREIGN RELATIONS AND NATIONAL SECURITY LAW: CASES, MATERIALS AND SIMULATIONS

By Thomas M. Franck and Michael J. Glennon

St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Company, 1987. Pp.lxiv, 941

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THE GRAND STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES IN LATIN AMERICA

By Tom J. Farer

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1988. Pp. xxxii, 294

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JUDGES

By David Pannick

New York: Oxford University Press,1987. Pp. vii, 255. …