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Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Books Received

The Utilization of Nuclear Energy and International Law By Vanda Lamm Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, Inc. 1984 Pp. 151. $29.95

War, Foreign Affairs, and Constitutional Power By Henry Bartholomew Cox Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger,1984. Pp. xx, 331 $35.00

Guidelines For International Election Observing Prepared by Larry Garber Washington, D.C.: The International Human Rights Law Group, 1984. Pp. iii, 90. $7.95

International Codes and Multinational Business: Setting Guidelines for International Business Operations By John M. Kline Westport, Connecticut: Qurom Books, 1985Pp. vi, 184. $35.00

Public Enterprises in Mixed Economies: Some Macroeconomic Aspects By Robert H. Floyd, Clive …

Action Specific Human Rights Legislation For El Salvador, Kenneth Anderson

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

This law journal note dating from the Central American civil wars of the 1980's discusses ways in which the US Congress could impose detailed action requirements related to human rights as a condition of continuing US military assistance to the government of El Salvador.

Defining Filartiga: Characterizing International Torture Claims In United States Courts, John Paul George

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

Filartiga v. Pena-Irala is the paradigm for studying private torture claims against foreign officials in the United States. As the paradigm, the Filartiga action must be succinctly defined. This will assist inquiries into its judicial jurisdiction and choice of law, and it will make Filartiga-type cases more understandable and therefore more acceptable to critics. This discussion is limited to the assertion of personal jurisdiction over a foreign official for a private torture claim brought in the United States. Although this analysis is focused narrowly on Filartiga, it is designed to enhance understanding of future torture claims as well.

Book Received, Law Library Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Books Received

Aspects of the International Banking Safety Net

By G.G. Johnson, with Richard K. Abrams

Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1983. Pp. v, 36. $5.00

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The Soviet Viewpoint

By Georgi Arbatov and Willem Oltmans

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983. Pp. xviii, 219. $13.95

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The Law of Corporate Groups: Procedural Problems in the Law of Parent and Subsidiary Corporations

By Phillip I. Blumberg

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. Pp. xxxii, 527. $65.00

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Iraq & Iran: Roots of Conflict

By Tareq Y. Ismael

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 226. $24.00 cloth; $12.95 paper …

Books Received, Law Review Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Japan's Reshaping of American Labor Law By William B. Gould Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1984. Pp.xii, 166. $19.95.

World Economic Outlook By The Staff of the International Monetary Fund Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund,1984. Pp. ix, 162. $15.00.

Recent Multilateral Debt Restructurings With Official and Bank Creditors By E. Brau and R.C. Williams Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1983. Pp. vii, 28. $5.00.

The Fund, Commercial Banks, and Member Countries By Paul Mentre Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund, 1984. Pp. v, 35. $5.00.

International Law and the New States of Africa By Yilma Makonnen New York: Unipub, 1983. Pp. …

The Frolova Case: A Practitioner's View, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

The Frolova case may provide a substantial basis for continuing a trend away from the unfortunate decision in Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino which may some day be viewed as the Alast gasp@ of the act of state doctrine as an impediment to the realization of the international rule of law.

Toward A New U.S. Human Rights Policy: An Interim Proposal, Patricia A. Mayne

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Human Rights And The Free Flow Of Information, Lung-Chu Chen

Articles & Chapters

"Human Rights and the Free Flow of Information." This topic immediately raises three key questions: the appropriate conception of human rights; the scope and reach of freedom of information; and finally, the bearing of one upon the other.

Symposium: The Trial Of The "Gang Of Four" And Its Implication In China

Maryland Series in Contemporary Asian Studies

No abstract provided.

Patriots And Terrorists: Reconciling Human Rights With World Order, Nicholas N. Kittrie

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Patriots And Terrorists: Reconciling Human Rights With World Order, Nicholas N. Kittrie

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Final Report On The Establishment Of An International Criminal Court For The Implementation Of The Apartheid Convention And Other Relevant International Instruments, Daniel H. Derby, M. Cherif Bassiouni

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Howard D. Coleman, Clark C. Siewert, John T. Smith Ii

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Book Reviews

Human Rights: International Petition System

Binders 1 and 2

Maxine E. Tardu

Dobbs Ferry: Oceania Publications, Inc.,1979 and 1980. $75.00 per Binder.

Reviewed by Howard D.Coleman

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The International Law and Policy of Human Welfare

Edited by R. St. John Macdonald, D.M. Johnston and L. Morris

The Netherlands: Sijthoff and Noordhoff, 1978. Pp. xviii, 690. $95.

Reviewed by Clark C. Siewert

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Deep Sea Mining

Judith T. Kildow, Editor

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England: MIT Press. 1980. Pp. 251.

Reviewed by John T. Smith II

Contemplating Sinha's Anthropocentric Theory Of International Law As A Basis For Human Rights, Eugene D. Fryer

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

U.S. Navy Regulations, International Law, And The Organization Of American States, Theodore K. Woods Jr.

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Yamashita, Nuremberg And Vietnam: Command Responsibility Reappraised, Franklin A. Hart

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

International Law And Basic Human Rights, Louis B. Sohn

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Combat Restraints, Howard S. Levie

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

The Right Of The Individual To Know And Act Upon His Rights And Duties: Monitoring Groups And The Helsinki Final Act, Virginia A. Leary Professor Of Law,

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The provisions of the Helsinki Final Act relating to human rights stimulated a most extraordinary and probably unforeseen development the creation of ad hoc private citizen monitoring groups in signatory countries. No other international instrument on human rights has had a similar effect. The activities of these monitoring groups cannot be over emphasized. The phrase in Principle VII of the Final Act that the signatory states confirm the right of the individual to know and act upon his rights and duties constituted international recognition of the legitimacy of participation by private individuals in the monitoring of their own country's conformity …

The Humanitarian Provisions Of The Helsinki Accord: A Critique Of Their Significance, Valery Chalidze

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

It is no exaggeration to say that the humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki Accord have been recorded in the history of international relations by virtue of not so much their content as the strong public response they have elicited. This reaction is perhaps surprising, for the humanitarian provisions of the Helsinki Accord itself are very weak. If the convergence of East and West means loss by the West of its legal perspective on issues as fundamental as human rights, then I would not recommend such a convergence. Keeping in mind the development of such problems in the future, it would …

The International Legal Significance Of The Human Rights Provisions Of The Helsinki Final Act, Alexandre C. Kiss, Mary F. Dominick

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

It may be submitted that the Helsinki Final Act is not a treaty, nor is it similar to resolutions of international organizations. In light of the language used in the text and the signatories' public expressions of intent, the human rights provisions must be deemed to have the same legal nature as the other provisions. The document as a whole falls within a special category of international legal instruments not anticipated by traditional definitions of the sources of international law--that is, non-binding, but directive texts which produce limited legal effects. Its foundation is agreement on a common objective: detente. Its …

The Soviet Human Rights Doctrine In The Crossfire Between Dissidents At Home And Critics Abroad, F.J.M. Feldbruggge

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

Political and foreign relations aspects, rather than justiciability and legal instrumentalities, have always been preponderant in So- viet human rights doctrine. It is widely admitted now, at least outside the Soviet Union, that the main purpose for the much- publicized inclusion of an extensive catalogue of basic rights in the 1936 Constitution of the USSR can only have been the crea- tion of a favorable impression upon the Western democracies.' One has to remember that this happened not only at a time when the victims of Stalinist terror were numbered in millions (making the constitutional pronouncements a lugubrious farce) but …

Table Of Contents: The Use Of Force, Human Rights, And General International Legal Issues

International Law Studies

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International Law, The Oas And The Dominican Crisis, Charles G. Fenwick

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

Prisoner And War Negotiations: The Korean Experience And Lesson, Harry P. Ball

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.

The Individual And International Law, Alona E. Evans

International Law Studies

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Prisoners Of War As Instruments Of Foreign Policy, Walton K. Richardson

International Law Studies

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Prisoners Of War And The Code Of Conduct, William P. Lyons

International Law Studies

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Are Human Rights Good For International Business , Anthony D'Amato

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

When I take up the Nuremberg cases in my class in International Law, I find it quite difficult to convey to the students how radical those proceedings appeared to be in 1947. At that time, the contention that there should be individual accountability under international law seemed to constitute an unfounded and dangerous precedent. How could political leaders be made personally responsible for acts of state such as instituting a war (even an "aggressive" war) or engaging in wholly internal policies (the "final solution" against Jews and other minorities of their own citizens)? Indeed, the Nuremberg result seemed somewhat unprincipled …

Table Of Contents Volume 60 Documents On Prisoners Of War

International Law Studies

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