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Elliott Evans Cheatham, Willis L.M. Reese
Elliott Evans Cheatham, Willis L.M. Reese
Vanderbilt Law Review
Cheatham has made a marked imprint through his teaching and his writing on five areas of the law: international law, property, legal education, the legal profession, and conflict of laws. Of these, the legal profession is probably the field where his influence has been most deeply felt. Indeed, it is largely because of his ground-breaking casebook that the subject figures so prominently today in law school curriculums. Likewise, his Carpentier Lectures of a few years ago on "A Lawyer When Needed" provided the entering wedge into a subject that is of great contemporary significance. What Cheatham has done in the …
International Law, National Tribunals And The Rights Of Aliens:, Richard B. Lillich
International Law, National Tribunals And The Rights Of Aliens:, Richard B. Lillich
Vanderbilt Law Review
There is growing concern everywhere these days with the application of substantive international law rules to individuals as well as to nations. Indeed, after years of relative neglect, the procedural side of international law is coming into its own, a development that is as welcome as it is overdue. To readers who recall Morris R. Cohen's observation that "students of legal history know the truth of the statement that 'the substantive law is secreted in the interstices of procedure,' nor need practitioners be reminded how frequently changes in procedure affect the substantive right of parties,"' this trend is a particularly …
International Law, National Tribunals And The Rights Of Aliens: The West European Experience, Peter E. Herzog
International Law, National Tribunals And The Rights Of Aliens: The West European Experience, Peter E. Herzog
Vanderbilt Law Review
The local remedies rule is usually considered a device to accommodate the legitimate desire of states to preserve their own sovereignty with the equally legitimate desire of states to protect their nationals who have suffered injury abroad. It is obvious that the adequacy of the rule in serving the second of these ends will depend on the nature and quality of the local remedies available. In turn, the effectiveness of local remedies in protecting the rights of aliens will depend on a variety of factors. Most importantly, there is the adequacy of the substantive legal rights in the fields of …
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Recent Cases, Law Review Staff
Vanderbilt Law Review
Antitrust--Unincorporated Divisions of a Corporation May Be Separate Entities for Purposes of Antitrust Laws
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Constitutional Law--One-Year Residence Requirement as Condition of Eligibility for State Welfare Aid Held Unconstitutional
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International Law--Sovereign Immunity and Act of State--Hickenlooper Amendment Precludes Assertion of Act of State Where Act Is Violative of International Law
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Products Liability--Lender Held Liable for Gross Defects in Housing Development It Had Financed
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Taxation--Constructive Ownership Rules Automatically Applied to Section 302(b) (1)Dividend Equivalency Test
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Taxation--IRS Rules Organization Which Discriminates on Basis of Race Not Charitable
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antitrust, constitutional law, international law, products liability, taxation
Case Comments, Journal Staff
Case Comments, Journal Staff
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Sovereign Immunity and Act of State -- A Foreign Sovereign instituting Suit in a United States Court waives Immunity to a Set-off arising from an Act of that Sovereign
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International Law--Nuremburg Doctrine invoked in Domestic Court-Martial