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The Bases And Range Of Federal Maritime Law: Indicia Of Maritime Competence, Arthur R. Louv
The Bases And Range Of Federal Maritime Law: Indicia Of Maritime Competence, Arthur R. Louv
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Constitution and federal statutes of the United States establish three forms of jurisdiction for the federal judiciary--diversity, federal question, and admiralty and maritime. This scheme of multi-based jurisdiction necessarily raises a fundamental problem in our federal judicial system: the interrelation of these grants of power.
Mr. Justice Story, the author of the opinion in Swift v. Tyson, viewed the grants of diversity, federal question, and maritime competence as complementary, and utilized this concept in an attempt to create a uniform body of federal commercial common law. In "Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins", however, the Supreme Court rejected the principle …
Book Reviews, Max Rheinstein, Eugene V. Rostow, William O. Thweatt
Book Reviews, Max Rheinstein, Eugene V. Rostow, William O. Thweatt
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
JUDICIAL REVIEW IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
By Mauro Cappelletti
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1971. Pp. xi, 117. $8.50 ($4.50 student edition).
reviewer: Max Rheinstein
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THE PRICE OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Philip C. Jessup
New York: Columbia University Press, 1971. Pp. ix, 82. $5.95.
reviewer: Eugene V. Rostow
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THREE WORLDS OF DEVELOPMENT: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL STRATIFICATION
By Irving Louis Horowitz
New York: Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xxx, 556. $15.00 (Paperback, $3.50).
reviewer: William O. Thweatt