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Bringing Meaning To Interest Balancing In Transnational Litigation, Spencer W. Waller
Bringing Meaning To Interest Balancing In Transnational Litigation, Spencer W. Waller
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article contends that the current state of the debate over the balancing of interests in the extraterritorial application of United States law is outmoded and in need of serious reexamination. Most commentators and scholars continue to focus on the area of jurisdiction to prescribe, the acceptability of the effects test, and the development of lists of United States and foreign interests to be balanced by a United States court before exercising jurisdiction.
Professor Waller contends that this debate is no longer productive. Extraterritoriality, with some limitations for the interests of other states, is an accepted feature of United States …
Case Digest, Journal Staff
Case Digest, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
1. Admiralty
State Port Authority Acting Incident to Maritime Carriage Subject to Admiralty Jurisdiction in Damage Suit
MARINE INSURANCE PROVIDING COVERAGE OF LOSSES "ARISING FROM OR OCCURRING FROM" SPECIFIED CONDITIONS DOES NOT COVER LOSSES OCCURRING AFTER PERIOD OF COVERAGE DUE TO CONDITIONS WHICH INITIALLY AROSE DURING THE PERIOD OF COVERAGE
FEDERAL COURT LACKS POWER UNDER SUITS IN ADMIRALTY ACT TO IMPOSE GOVERNMENTAL LIABILITY FOR HARM CAUSED BY FAILURE TO EXERCISE DISCRETIONARY FUNCTION
2. Alien's Rights
FAMILY RELATIONSHIP CAN BE SHOWN AS A MATTER OF FACT FOR IMMIGRATION PURPOSES WHERE APPLICABLE FOREIGN DOMESTIC LAW HOLDS MEANINGLESS THE CONCEPT OF LEGITIMACY
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Books Received, Journal Staff
Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
ABSTRACTION AND USE OF WATER: A COMPARISON OF LEGAL REGIMES By Ludwik A. Teclaff
New York, United Nations Publications,1972. Pp. iv, 254. $5.50.
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CONSULATE OF THE SEA AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
By Stanley S. Jados
University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press,1975. Pp. xvi, 326. $12.00
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FOOTSTEPS INTO THE FUTURE
by Rajni Kothari
New York: The Free Press, 1974. Pp. xxiii, 173. $8.95.
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THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
Edited by H. Gary Knight
St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1975.Pp. xiii, 253. $14.00.
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THE ILLEGAL DIVERSION OF AIRCRAFT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
By Edward McWhinney
Leiden: A.W. …