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The Law Of The Sea Conference: Dispute Settlement In Perspective, John K. Gamble, Jr. Jan 1976

The Law Of The Sea Conference: Dispute Settlement In Perspective, John K. Gamble, Jr.

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

On March 15, 1976, the Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference reconvened in New York City. The task of this Conference, drafting a new and comprehensive law of the sea treaty, is enormous. At the very least the new treaty will modify many of the traditional patterns for use and control of hydrospace. There is no doubt that coastal states will achieve the right to exercise control over all resources within 200 nautical miles of their coasts. If this contingency is not implemented by treaty, then it will be reached by unilateral claims to these zones. Agreeing on …


The United Nations Seventh Special Session: Proposals For A New World Economic Order, Clark D. Mervis Jan 1976

The United Nations Seventh Special Session: Proposals For A New World Economic Order, Clark D. Mervis

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

In September 1975 the United Nations held a special session, only the seventh in the organization's history, on global economic problems. The issue precipitating the special session was the call for a new international economic order by the world's developing nations. Since the oil crisis of 1973, the United Nations has become the arena for dispute between the world's wealthy nations and its poor nations, and bloc against bloc confrontations are common-place. It is clear that action must be taken soon, not only if we are to distribute more equitably the world's wealth, but also if we are to avert …


Books Received, Journal Staff Jan 1976

Books Received, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Books Received

AFRICAN GOALS AND DIPLOMATIC STRATEGIES IN THE UNITED NATIONS By Moses E. Akpan

North Quincy, Mass.: Christopher Publishing House, 1976. Pp. 165. $9.95.

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BASIC PROBLEMS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

Edited by P.D. Dagtoglou

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975. Pp. xvii, 286, $18.00.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TAXATION OF FOREIGN OPERATIONS AND FOREIGNERS: 1968-1975

By Elisabeth Owens & Gretchen Hovemeyer

Cambridge, Mass.: International Tax Program, Harvard Law School,1976. Pp. xiii, 107. $7.50.

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THE CONSTITUTION AND THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN POLICY

Edited by Francis 0. Wilcox and Richard A. Frank

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1976. Pp. xiv, 145. $12.50.

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