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State Prisoners, Federal Courts, And Playing By The Rules: An Analysis Of The Aldisert Committee's Recommended Procedures For Handling Prisoner Civil Rights Cases, Gay Gellhorn

Seattle University Law Review

The Comment first will recapitulate the full range of procedural initiatives proposed by the Aldisert Committee for adoption as local court rules. Then it will analyze the Committee's recommendations relating to pleading forms and screening the complaints before service of process, the critical stage at which courts dispose of most prisoner complaints. Although concluding that important aspects of the recommended procedures are fundamentally inconsistent with federal statutes and rules, this Comment acknowledges the valid concerns generating the Committee's proposals, and then suggests alternative judicial actions responsive to the phenomenon of state prisoner civil rights com- plaints in federal courts.

International Law And Control Of The Media: Terror, Repression And The Alternatives, Jordan J. Paust

Indiana Law Journal

Terrorism and the Media: Legal Responses, Symposium

Books Received, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

THE ARAB OIL WEAPON

By Jordan J. Paust & Albert P. Blaustein

Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1977. Pp. 370.$27.50.

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ARBITRATION IN SWEDEN

Stockholm: Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, 1977. Pp. 212. $25.00.

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THE DECLINE OF DEMOCRACY IN THE PHILIPPINES

A Report of Missions by William J. Butler, John P. Humphrey, & G.E. Bisson. Geneva: International Commission of Jurists, 1977. Pp. 97. $4.00.

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DE-RECOGNIZING TAIWAN: THE LEGAL PROBLEMS

By Victor H. Li

Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1977.Pp. 48. $1.50.

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EAST-WEST TRADE, A SOURCEBOOK ON THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF SOCIALIST COUNTRIES AND THEIR LEGAL …

Book Reviews, Frank J. Remington, George B. Tindall

Vanderbilt Law Review

Fair and Certain Punishment

Review by Frank J. Remington

Punishing Criminals. By Ernest van den Haag. New York: BasicBooks, Inc., 1975. Thinking About Crime. By James Q. Wilson. New York: BasicBooks, Inc., 1975.

Times change. So also do opinions about important social problems such as crime and government's response to crime. The books of both van den Haag and Wilson reflect changing opinions on crime and on what to do about crime. Both urge that we abandon the view that social conditions are an important cause of crime and that an improvement in social conditions will reduce crime substantially.Both urge …

Books Received, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Chile: The Balanced View

Edited by Francisco Orrego Vicuna

Santiago: The University of Chile, 1975. Pp. 298.

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Codification in the Communist World--Symposium in Memory of Zsolt Szirmai Organized by Donald Barry, F.J.M. Feldbrugge & Dominick Lasok

Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff, 1975. Pp. xv, 353. $42.50.

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Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons: Prevention and Punishment

By Louis M. Bloomfield & Gerald F. Fitzgerald.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. Pp. xviii, 272. $16.50.

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Criminal Justice in Eighteenth Century Mexico

By Colin M. MacLachlan

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974. Pp.viii, 141. $9.00.

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EEC Anti-Trust Law--Principles and Practice

By D. Barounos, …

Regional Commissions To Monitor Confinement Institutions: A Proposal, Arthur R. Landever

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

O N ANY GIVEN DAY, THERE ARE MORE THAN one million persons involuntarily confined within government institutions.1 Those in custody whether committed to mental institutions, jails, juvenile facilities, or prisons, are the invisible Americans. Until recently, most of us on the outside were not particularly concerned about their lot. To the extent that we knew of their existence, we were relieved that they were out of our immediate neighborhoods and that we were "protected" from them. Increasingly, however, newspaper headlines or television screens have begun to show glimpses of these inmates as they riot; widespread abuses are exposed, and authorities …

Appointed Counsel For The Indigent Civil Defendant: A Constitutional Right Without A Judicial Remedy., Michael Botein

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

The International Covenants On Human Rights: An Approach To Interpretation, Parvez Hassan

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Law-Procedural Due Process In Criminal Cases-Adequacy Of Remedies In State Courts To Raise The Questions, David H. Armstrong S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

This comment will not attempt to consider the guarantees of a fair trial, but will deal with the remedies available to a person confined in a state prison in his attempt to secure relief on the ground of an asserted violation of such guarantees in the conduct of his trial.