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International Straits, Global Communications, And The Evolving Law Of The Sea, W. George Grandison, Virginia J. Meyer
International Straits, Global Communications, And The Evolving Law Of The Sea, W. George Grandison, Virginia J. Meyer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
In the continuing law of the sea negotiations, strong support has developed among a majority of states for the extension of territorial seas to twelve miles. In the absence of other provisions, codification of this extension in a new law of the sea treaty will cause over 100 straits, including many of the most heavily traveled and strategically important, to be overlapped by the territorial sea. Because this will alter the pattern of international legal norms that has preserved freedom of navigation and overflight between ocean areas, considerable controversy has ensued over the question of what legal regime should govern …
Books Received, Journal Staff
Books Received, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
ABSTRACTION AND USE OF WATER: A COMPARISON OF LEGAL REGIMES By Ludwik A. Teclaff
New York, United Nations Publications,1972. Pp. iv, 254. $5.50.
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CONSULATE OF THE SEA AND RELATED DOCUMENTS
By Stanley S. Jados
University, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press,1975. Pp. xvi, 326. $12.00
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FOOTSTEPS INTO THE FUTURE
by Rajni Kothari
New York: The Free Press, 1974. Pp. xxiii, 173. $8.95.
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THE FUTURE OF INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
Edited by H. Gary Knight
St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1975.Pp. xiii, 253. $14.00.
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THE ILLEGAL DIVERSION OF AIRCRAFT AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
By Edward McWhinney
Leiden: A.W. …
Limitation Of Liability Versus Direct Action Statutes, H. Barton Williams
Limitation Of Liability Versus Direct Action Statutes, H. Barton Williams
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The legislative history of the maritime limitation of liability statutes, both in the United States and in England, is uncomplicated. The original sources are available, and in several important opinions, the Supreme Court of the United States has set forth the history of the limitation statutes. Limitation of liability to the value of the owner's interest in the vessel and freight is a principle that springs solely from the general maritime law, and was not recognized either at common law or by the civil law.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to say when and where the idea of limitation …