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Recent Treaties And Statutes, Shelley I. Stiles, Iii
Recent Treaties And Statutes, Shelley I. Stiles, Iii
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Since the 1946 Supreme Court decision in Seas Shipping Co. v. Sieracki, the seaman's traditional remedy based on absolute liability of the vessel for an unseaworthy condition also has been available to longshoremen. Limited to longshoremen working aboard the vessel, the Sieracki opinion emphasized that the work of loading and unloading vessels was a maritime service formerly and historically rendered by seamen, and reasoned that because the work now performed by longshoremen involved risks commensurate with those undertaken by seamen, longshoremen injured on board ship should be entitled to unlimited recovery under the seaworthiness doctrine. The seaworthiness doctrine was expanded …
The Question Of Compensation: A Third World Perspective, Norman Girvan
The Question Of Compensation: A Third World Perspective, Norman Girvan
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The question of compensation for expropriated property takes us, in many respects, to the heart of the relationship between the developed capitalist countries and the Third World. On no other subject is the gulf between the two--in interests, perspectives and position--potentially so great, nor so pregnant with passionate and violent conflict. The rules of international law, the principles of international economics and the science of international politics can help clarify the issues involved and provide arguments for the claims of contending parties. But they cannot yield solutions which are "neutral" or are free of value judgments and philosophical assumptions which …