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Recent Cases, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Plaintiff, a West German foundation, sued to enjoin infringement of United States trademarks by defendant, an East German "peoples-owned enterprise." The original Carl Zeiss Stiftung was created at Jena in 1889 with the required approval of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach for the purpose of owning and operating an optical business for profit. In 1945, before Jena became part of the Soviet Zone, United States military authorities evacuated all members of the Zeiss Board of Management, as well as key personnel, to Heidenheim, Wuerttemberg, in the United States zone. In 1948, the Soviet Union expropriated all Zeiss assets in Jena, including …

Case Comments--International Law--Corporations--State Denied Standing To Sue For Injury, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Ltd.,(hereinafter referred to as Barcelona Traction) was incorporated under Canadian law in 1911 with its main office in Toronto. Several subsidiaries were formed, all under Canadian law, to develop, produce, and distribute electric power in the vicinity of Catalonia, Spain. To finance these operations, the company issued both peseta and sterling bonds, the shares in some of the subsidiaries providing security to a Canadian bank for the sterling bonds. Revenue produced by the subsidiaries from their operations in Spain was used to service the bond interest. Servicing was suspended for the duration of …

The Impact Of Canadian Income Tax Law On Domestic Subsidiaries Of U.S. Corporations—B.C. And A.D., James A. Rendall

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

International Secured Transactions: United States & Canada, Dellas W. Lee

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Exchange Control, The Principle Of Nondiscrimination And International Trade, Wilhelm A. Kewenig

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Similarities In American And European Negotiable Instruments Law, Marshall L. Cohen

Buffalo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Determining The Law Governing Performance In International Commercial Arbitration: A Comparative Study, Gabriel M. Wilner

Scholarly Works

Persons entering into commercial agreements of a transnational nature have often shown a preference for the arbitration tribunal rather than the court of law as the instrument for settling disputes which may arise between them.

The parties, who may be either individuals or legal persons, such as corporations, manifest their desire to employ arbitration by providing for its use in the arbitration clause of the contract. It is generally agreed that such a clause, whether or not it is considered as part of the main contract, is consensual in nature. But the significance of the agreement to arbitrate is determined …

Sovereign Immunity Restricted To Noncommercial Activity-Victory Transport Inc. V. Comisaria General De Abastecimientos Y Transportes, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Although frequently criticized, the established doctrine of absolute sovereign immunity has long prevented suits in the courts of the United States against foreign nations without their consent. The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, however, in ,em>Victory Transport Inc. v. Comisaria General de Abastecimientos y Transportes, affirmed a district court order compelling arbitration between an American shipowner and the Spanish Ministry of Commerce in accordance with the terms of a contract to carry wheat from Alabama to Spain. Although the Spanish Consul asserted that the Ministry, as a branch of the Spanish government, was immune from suit …

Space Communications And The Law: Adequate International Control After 1963?, Samuel D. Estep, Amalya L. Kearse

Michigan Law Review

During the current year, a space event of legal and technological significance will occur. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (A.T. & T.), using the launching facilities of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will launch its first satellite for research in the area of commercial communications.† The A.T. & T. sphere will be the first tested by a private, commercial organization specifically for business purposes- to implement a plan eventually to provide increased and improved telecommunications on a grand scale at a lower cost. The satellite will relay television signals from the United States to England, Germany, and …

Stein And Nicholson: American Enterprises In The European Common Market: A Legal Profile, Volume 1, James N. Hyde

Michigan Law Review

A Review of American Enterprises in the European Common Market: A Legal Profile, Volume 1. Edited by Eric Stein and Thomas L. Nicholson.

Book Reviews, Robert L. Hale, John P. Dawson, Monrad G. Paulsen, William R. Roalfe, John C. Payne, Maxwell Cohen, L. C. B. Gower, John S. Bradway, Paul Sayre, Herbert A. Berman, James S. Savage, Joseph Dainow, Edwin P. Friedberg, Edwin J. Hadd, Kenneth L. Black, H. W. Hannah, Dix W. Noel, Robert F. Koretz, Heinrich Kronstein

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Extraterritorial Effects Of Confiscations And Expropriations, Ignaz Seidl-Hohenvelden

Michigan Law Review

The study of the problem of extraterritorial effects of confiscations and expropriations from the point of view of Comparative Law has special practical importance. There are hardly any codified rules applicable to foreign confiscations and expropriations, either in statutory law countries or in common law countries. Hence, decisions have to be based largely on generally accepted rules of public and private international law. Such general acceptance can only be proved by a comparative analysis of foreign as well as of domestic precedents.

Extraterritorial Effects Of Confiscations And Expropriations, Ignaz Seidl-Hohenvelden

Michigan Law Review

The study of the problem of extraterritorial effects of confiscations and expropriations from the point of view of Comparative Law has special practical importance. There are hardly any codified rules applicable to foreign confiscations and expropriations, either in statutory law countries or in common law countries. Hence, decisions have to be based largely on generally accepted rules of public and private international law. Such general acceptance can only be proved by a comparative analysis of foreign as well as of domestic precedents.

Trade Barriers Created By Business, Corwin D. Edwards

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Service Of Process On Foreign Corporations Not Admitted To Do Business In The State

Indiana Law Journal

Legislative Comment

What Constitutes Doing Business By A Foreign Corporation, William J. Kinnally

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

Michigan Law Review

A collection of book reviews by multiple authors.

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Acknowledgement--Impeachment--Examination of Married Woman; Bankruptcy--Discharge--Libel; Bankruptcy--Selection of Trustee--Right of Creditors to Elect; Bills and Notes--Genuine Draft with Forged Bill of Lading; Bills and Notes--Release of Indorsers; Carriers--Refulsal to Give Transer--Passenger's Motive in Requesting; Covenants--covenant Against Incumbrances--Runs with the Land; Deeds--Parties--One Not Names as Grantor Signing; Elections--Corrupt Practices Act--who is a Candidate; elections--voting Machines--Statute Unconstitutional; Eminent Domain--Taking of railroad Right of Way for Street Purposes--Measure of Damages; Equity--maxims--application in Suit for Divorce on Statutory Grounds; Evidence--Opinion as to One's Physical Condition--Expert Testimony; Foreign Corporations--Right to do business in State can Become Vested; Foreign Corporations--Service of Process on--What Constitutes "Doing Business"; Foreign …

Note And Comment, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Lawyers and Jurists at the Exposition; Convention of the Commercial Law League of America; The Philippine Island Cases in the Supreme Court of the United States; The Writ of Habeas Corpus in Chinese Exclusion Cases; What is a "Crime" Within the Meaning of the Constitution?; Due Process of Law; Winding up Proceedings; Literary Criticism and the Law of Libel; The New Japanese Civil Code;