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Editor's Foreword, Charles G. Burr Editor-In-Chief
Editor's Foreword, Charles G. Burr Editor-In-Chief
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is a new undertaking at Vanderbilt Law School. The Journal is an outgrowth of the predecessor publication, The Vanderbilt International, which was established in 1967 as a bulletin of the Vanderbilt International Law Society. A number of factors, including increased student enrollment at the Law School and a growing awareness of global activities and problems, have facilitated the Journal's evolution into its present, expanded format. It is indeed appropriate that the lead article of the new publication should be authored by Judge Philip C. Jessup, who has long been the foremost advocate in the …
The Regulation Of Transnational Sports Competition: Down From Mount Olympus, James A.R. Nafziger
The Regulation Of Transnational Sports Competition: Down From Mount Olympus, James A.R. Nafziger
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
This article seeks first to identify the behavioral and organizational characteristics, and to clarify the shared goals of transnational sports competition. Against this background, the article will examine the formal characteristics of decision-making within the Olympic Movement, whose quadrennial Games provide the most highly developed for a for these events. Finally, four case studies are used to evaluate the Olympic organization's performance--that is, the efficacy of relevant policies, rules and procedures that are available to decision-makers to achieve the shared goals of the organization. Several modest proposals are advanced. Aside from these, however, a comprehensive prescription of alternative policies, rules …
The Protection Of Art In Transnational Law, Alan Marchisotto
The Protection Of Art In Transnational Law, Alan Marchisotto
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Over the years, governments have been faced with preservation problems posed by war, theft and uncontrolled access to cultural sites. In addition, they have become increasingly sensitive to the unrestricted exodus of culturally important works of art. Their attempts to deal with these problems have raised serious questions about the nature of state responsibility in this field, about the criteria employed to define a particular cultural heritage and to classify certain work as falling within it, and about the right of nations to claim exclusive control of designed works of art. The difficulty in answering these questions has been compounded …