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Judicial Experimentation With A Strict Products Liability Rule: A Comparison Of The Law In The United Kingdom, Louisiana, And United States' Common Law Jurisdictions, Thomas E. Carbonneau, Catherine Garvey

Faculty Scholarship

Since the mid-nineteenth century, products liability law has undergone significant modifications. The applicable doctrine has oscillated between contract and tort theories; fault and no-fault liability schemes have competed for predominance. Despite attempts to create an internationally accepted liability norm, different legal systems continue to espouse differing perceptions of the liability formula in the products area. In addition, even in jurisdictions in which courts adhere to identical liability theories, there is disagreement as to the application and implications of the same standard. This article attempts to set the shifting doctrinal character of products liability analysis into a comparative perspective principally between …

Brazil's Profit Remittance Law: Reconciling Goals In Foreign Investments, Jan Hoffman French

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Promoting foreign investment is a goal of many developing nations. Along with the benefits of that investment, however, foreign participation in development creates problems such as balance of payments deficits caused by the repatriation of profits earned by the foreign investor. Brazil's profit remittance law is one effort to reconcile these problems. By providing for the registration of foreign investment and using a system of reinvestment incentives, the Profit Remittance Law seeks to promote foreign investment while avoiding the loss of capital which results when profits are remitted abroad. The author of this article describes and explains the Profit Remittance …

The Rights Of A Mexican Concubine Under Arizona Workmen's Compensation Law, John Flood

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The case of Fidel Ochoa Urquijo (deceased), Rosa Elda Velasquez (alleged widow) et al. v. Reidhead Enterprises and State Compensation Fund, decided by the Industrial Commission of Arizona in 1981, considers whether a woman, recognized as a surviving concubine under the laws of the Republic of Mexico, is entitled to widow's benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Act of the State of Arizona (the Arizona Act) upon the death of her Mexican national "husband, " when that death arose out of and in the course of his legal employment with an Arizona employer. Under Mexican law, a surviving concubine of an …

Limited, Conditional, And Suspended Discharges In Anglo-American Bankruptcy Proceedings, Douglass Boshkoff

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Current Research Sources In French Law, Claire M. Germain

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Jury Selection In Two Countries: A Psychological Perspective, Valerie P. Hans

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

A comparative survey of jury selection practices in Britain and the United States indicates that the two countries differ along a number of dimensions, including the emphasis on the jury selection process in the trial, the amount and type of information available about prospective jurors, and the frequency with which trial lawyers alter the composition of the jury. The probable impact of these differences is analysed by considering the importance of jury composition in determining a jury’s verdict, the effectiveness of lawyers in exercising their challenges, and broader effects of jury selection procedures in the two countries.

The Spanish Constitution Of 1978: Legislative Competence Of The Autonomous Communities In Civil Law Matters, Juan C. Palau, Jose W. Fernandez

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Spanish Constitution of 1978 had to deal with the issues that emerged with the advent of a democratic regime following the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975. Political pluralism, the relationship between church and state, and the official language of the Spanish state were among the dilemmas facing the Constitutional Commission. Yet the historically sensitive issue of the autonomy of the Spanish regions proved to be the most troublesome. Title VIII of the Constitution provides a political compromise in resolution of this issue although scholars and politicians, including some constitutional draftsmen, have criticized the ambiguity of this title. …

Nordic Refugee Law And Policy, Göran Melander

Michigan Journal of International Law

Since the end of World War II, the Nordic states have shown an interest in refugee policy and have taken part in work on behalf of refugees through various international organizations. In the 1940s and the 1950s, when Western Europe was faced with a huge refugee problem, the Nordic states shared the burden with countries of first asylum in Central Europe by admitting refugees for permanent resettlement. In the 1960s and 1970s, when other continents were confronted with refugee problems, the Nordic states also generously contributed material assistance to refugees resettled in neighboring countries. In 1979, for instance, the Nordic …

Book Reviews, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Israel and Palestine--Assault on the Law of Nations by Julius Stone.

Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press. 1981. Pp.223. $17.50.

Reviewed by Barry Hart Dubner

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Treatise on Air--Aeronautical Law. Nicolas Mateesco Matte.

Toronto: The Carswell Co. Ltd., Pp. 832.

Reviewed by John M. Lindsey

A Reprise On Herbert V. Lando And The Law Of Defamation, Howard Hunter

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Three and a half years ago, in an article, published in a symposium issue of the Kentucky Law Journal focusing on the first amendment, I examined the United States Supreme Court decision of Herbert v. Lando. The Court held that reporters, editors and publishers are not protected by any "editorial privilege" from "state of mind" inquiries during discovery in a defamation case governed by the standard of liability set forth in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. The Supreme Court decision in Lando stirred a mild flurry of academic comment, partly because it reversed the Second Circuit's broad ruling in …

American Influence On Israel's Jurisprudence Of Free Speech, Pnina Lahav

Faculty Scholarship

This is a study of the role played by judicial development of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution in shaping the jurisprudence of free speech in Israel - a country without a bill of rights. Rivalry and contrast between opposing modes of legal thought, judicial styles, doctrines, and finally, models of democracy within Israel's Supreme Court are major themes. Most of the adversarial elements reflect competing ideas in the intellectual history of American free speech law. Thus, the tension within Israel's Supreme Court reflects the tension between American free speech jurisprudence as it now is and as it …

Enjoining The Application Of The British Protection Of Trading Interests Act In Private American Antitrust Litigation, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that American courts should mitigate the impact of the PTIA on American antitrust litigation by enjoining British defendants from pursuing their rights under the Act. Part I examines the Act's principal effects on antitrust enforcement and the settlement process, and concludes that these effects are serious enough to warrant judicial intervention. Part II establishes a court's power to issue transnational antisuit injunctions, and considers the propriety of doing so. After briefly rejecting two practical objections to such injunctions - that they are impossible to enforce and will provoke international retaliation - Part II analyzes the doctrine of …

Interamerican Cooperation In Obtaining Testimony: The Problems Of Integrating Foreign Systems Of Evidence: A Comparative Study Of The United States, The Federal Republic Of Germany, And Mexico, Mitchell M. Cohen, Martha L. Hutzelman

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Law Of The Sea Conference And Development: Food And Energy Resources, Bernard H. Oxman

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Trends In Brazilian Regulation Of Business, Keith S. Rosenn

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Soia Mentschikoff, Alan C. Swan

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Dames & Moore V. Regan And The Miami Conference, Alan C. Swan

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Feudal Framework Of English Law, Robert C. Palmer

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Legal Framework of English Feudalism by S.F.C, Milsom

Judgment Non Obstantibus Datis, Reid Hastie

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Jury Trials by John Baldwin and Michael McConville

Thoughts About Judging, Henry J. Friendly

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Judge by Patrick Devlin

Law And Politics: The House Of Lords As A Judicial Body, 1800-1976, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law and Politics: The House of Lords as a Judicial Body, 1800-1976 by Robert Stevens

Britain, Blacks, And Busing, Derrick Bell

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Doing Good By Doing Little: Race and Schooling in Britain by David L. Kirp

Social Research And The Use Of Medieval Criminal Records, Edward Powell

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Society and Homicide in Thirteenth-Century England by James Buchanan Given, and Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 by Barbara A. Hanawalt

Political Crime In Europe: A Comparative Study Of France, Germany, And England, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Political Crime in Europe: A Comparative Study of France, Germany, and England by Barton Ingraham

A Look At Labor Law In The Land Down Under: Industrial Relations In Australia, David S. Bogen

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Japanese Americans And Central European Jews: A Comparison Of Post-War Reparation Problems, Mary Reiko Osaka

UC Law SF International Law Review

In 1980, Congress established a commission to investigate whether a wrong was committed by the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The investigation may provide the basis for making reparations to the Japanese Americans involved. The Note compares remedies made available by the Federal Republic of Germany for the extermination and displacement of Jews during World War II with past and possible future remedies for the Japanese Americans. The Note concludes that the precedent set by the Federal Republic of Germany of making reparation on the basis of a moral obligation should be followed by the …

Political Offenses In Extradition: Time For Judicial Abstention, James G. Clark

UC Law SF International Law Review

Since the courts have been unable to develop a workable test to distinguish between political and non-political offenses, this Note argues for a clear division between the roles of the judiciary and the executive in extradition proceedings. This division-of-responsibility approach would have the judiciary determine probable cause and the sufficiency of evidence to sustain a charge against an accused while the determination of the political or non-political character of an offense would be left to the State Department. The Note argues that had this approach been adopted, recent extradition decisions could have reached harmonious results.

United Kingdom Regulation Of Transnational Corporate Concentration, J. Denys Gribbin

Michigan Journal of International Law

This article begins by describing the United Kingdom's policy toward outward and inward direct investment and then sets out the essentials of the competition laws that are among the major, nondiscriminatory regulatory mechanisms that affect corporate behavior and planning. The article also analyzes the development of competition policy as a microeconomic instrument along with its application to monopoly, oligopoly, and cartels involving transnational corporations. Competition policy, except for cartels, is shown to be relatively benign toward mergers until recently, and with respect to monopoly and oligopoly has sought remedies in regulation of prices and behavior rather than through structural change. …

The Domestic Application Of International Human Rights Law: Evolving The Species, Jeffrey Hadley Louden

UC Law SF International Law Review

International human rights law may give rise to domestically enforceable rights. The Note traces the evolution of international human rights law, and examines the cases in which international human rights law has been applied as authority in United States courts. One obstacle to widespread domestic application of international law is a subjective approach to "self-executing treaty analysis" used by some courts. The Note urges a re-evaluation of the self-executing treaty analysis as applied to changing international human rights law, and suggests that treaties should be evaluated on the basis of the express treaty language, and not on the basis of …

The Evolving Concept Of European Labor Relations Legislation, Walter Kolvenbach

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The subject of worker participation in the decision-making process has become one of the major topics in the developing area of EEC labor law. The EEC Treaty, however, does not provide the direct legal basis for the introduction of worker participation legislation by the Community. The Commission, therefore, has concentrated on harmonizing the company legislation of the Member States in its drive to develop a European labor legislation. In this article, Dr. Kolvenbach surveys the existing company legislation in the Member States dealing with worker participation and discusses the recent harmonization proposals of the Commission. He then concludes by supporting …