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Case Digest, Journal Staff
Case Digest, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
1. ADMIRALTY
Payment of Wages to Discharged Seaman is not Limited to Direct Cash Payment if other Methods are more Appropriate
Rules for the Transfer of an Admiralty Suit to another Forum are the Same for in Rem as for In Personam Actions
Longshoremen Injured on Employer's Vessel have a Negligence Action against that Employer for Non-stevedore Caused Injuries
Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction and Availability of an Alternative Forum denies Foreign Seaman Access to Federal Courts
Longshoreman's Employer is not a Necessary or Indispensable Party to Longshoreman's Action against Shipowner for Negligence
Wrongful Death Remedy under Decisional Maritime Law …
The Bremen, Cogsa And The Problem Of Conflicting Interpretation, Charles L. Black, Jr.
The Bremen, Cogsa And The Problem Of Conflicting Interpretation, Charles L. Black, Jr.
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
All aspects of the important Bremen decision will be explored in these Comments and elsewhere. I propose to present just two ideas, without needless connective verbal tissue between them: I. The Bremen case has nothing to do with the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act (COGSA); both choice-of-forum and choice-of-law clauses should continue to be invalidated in bills of lading subject to that Act. II. The best solution for international conflicts of interpretation as to COGSA (and doubtless as to other statutes based on international conventions) would be an international court of appeals, exercising a discretionary jurisdiction, but empowered to …
Utility Of The Jurisdictional Principle In A Policy Centered Conflict Of Laws, Edwin W. Briggs
Utility Of The Jurisdictional Principle In A Policy Centered Conflict Of Laws, Edwin W. Briggs
Vanderbilt Law Review
Various recent studies' have confirmed the suspicion that courts continue to find it necessary to approve and rely heavily on the principle of "legislative jurisdiction" residing in some one state, even though they do not often admit it in so many words. Since the discussion of the problem by courts generally assumes that the single question in conflicts is choice of law, and since one of the most influential writers on the subject in recent times has denied the validity of the jurisdictional principle at the common law as a means of solving a conflicts problem, a study giving further …