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Secrets And Lies? Swiss Banks And International Human Rights, Anita Ramasastry
Secrets And Lies? Swiss Banks And International Human Rights, Anita Ramasastry
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This Article explores the relationship of Swiss banks and their tradition of bank secrecy to the activities of a particular group of depositors: war criminals and other human rights violators. The Article focuses on litigation brought in U.S. courts by plaintiffs seeking access to Swiss bank deposits made by the Nazis and Ferdinand Marcos. The Article examines the possibility of holding banks accountable under international law for assisting a customer who has committed a serious breach of international law. Part I introduces the role of bank secrecy in the current litigation. Part II describes the Swiss tradition of bank secrecy. …
Book Received, Law Library Staff
Book Received, Law Library Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Books Received
Aspects of the International Banking Safety Net
By G.G. Johnson, with Richard K. Abrams
Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1983. Pp. v, 36. $5.00
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The Soviet Viewpoint
By Georgi Arbatov and Willem Oltmans
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983. Pp. xviii, 219. $13.95
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The Law of Corporate Groups: Procedural Problems in the Law of Parent and Subsidiary Corporations
By Phillip I. Blumberg
Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Pp. xxxii, 527. $65.00
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Iraq & Iran: Roots of Conflict
By Tareq Y. Ismael
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 226. $24.00 cloth; $12.95 paper …
Book Review, Robert C. Effros
Book Review, Robert C. Effros
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Mr. Crossick and Ms. Lindsay have collaborated to produce an analytical work entitled European Banking Law. The analysis is composed of four main sections: banking, credit, capital movement, and securities. Each section contains a description of the applicable major laws and regulations in the countries of the European Economic Community (EEC) as well as Portugal and Spain, and includes a summary of the relevant EEC directives and their supporting studies. On the whole, the authors' product is successful and useful, particularly in describing the EEC's attempts to accomplish the difficult task of harmonizing and coordinating banking and financial laws within …
Books Received, C. C. S.
Books Received, C. C. S.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
BOOKS RECEIVED
THE EXTENSION OF CORPORATE PERSONALITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW By David A. Ijalaye
Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1978. Pp. 354.
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HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN LEGAL ORDER
By John Dugard
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. Pp. 470.
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INTERNATIONALE BANKEN: AUSLANDSAKTIVITXTEN VON BANKEN BE-DEUTENDER INDUSTRIELANDER
By Ursel Stueber
Hamburg: Verlag Weltarchiv, 1974 (1977 Supplement available). Pp. 204.
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INVESTMENT INCENTIVE PROGRAMS IN WESTERN EUROPE
By B. T.Mansbach and R. J. Waldman
Washington, D.C.: International Division, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, 1978.
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SECESSION: THE LEGITIMACY OF SELF-DETERMINATION
By Lee C. Buchheit
New Haven, …
Books Received, Journal Staff
Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
AIR CHARTER REGULATION
By Jaap Kamp
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Pp. 162. $16.50.
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ANATOMY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
By J.G. Merrills
London: Sweet& Maxwell, 1976. Pp. 106. $7.55.
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AUSTRALIAN LAWYERS AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Edited by David Hambly & John Golding
Sydney: Law Book Company, Ltd., 1976. Pp. 392.$17.50.
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COLONIAL EMANCIPATION IN THE PACIFIC AND THE CARIBBEAN
By Arnold Leibowitz
New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Pp. 221.$20.00.
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THE DEVELOPING COMMON MARKET
By John Paxton
Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1976. 3rd edition. Pp. 240. $25.00.
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ERSKINE MAY'S PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE
Edited by Sir David Lidderdale
London: Butterworths, 1976. …
A Report On Certain Recent Legal Developments In The International Monetary Fund, Joseph Gold
A Report On Certain Recent Legal Developments In The International Monetary Fund, Joseph Gold
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In the recent past, the main activity of the International Monetary Fund in connection with the development of international law has been the negotiation and drafting of an amendment of the Fund's Articles of Agreement. The present report deals primarily with that activity, but also comments on the sixth general review of the quotas of member states in the Fund.
On August 15, 1971, the United States, having decided to free itself from certain constraints that had become unacceptable and to exercise greater autonomy for national policies, suspended the convertibility into gold or other reserve assets of balances of United …