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Control Group Test Unacceptable As Standard For Assertion Of Attorney-Client By Corporations., Thomas D. Anthony

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Manufacturing Process Which Includes Use Of Mathematical Formula And Computer Program Constitutes Patentable Subject Matter., Edward W. Roush Jr.

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Declaratory Judgments In Texas - Mandatory Or Discretionary., Robert W. Calvert

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Overview: Plea Bargaining In Texas., Phillip R. Spicer Jr.

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Offensive Collateral Estoppel And Products Liability: Reasoning The Unreasonable., Kurt Erlenbach

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Civil Procedure - In Personam Jurisdiction - In Personam Jurisdiction May Be Exercised Over A Foreign Corporation Which Has Engaged In Continuous And Substantial Business Transactions In Texas For Cuases Of Action Unrelated To Those Transactions., David H. Brock

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Bona Fide Seniority Systems Adopted Before And After Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Are Immune From Attack Unless Result Of Intention To Discriminate., Diane M. Weidert

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Sixth Amendment Right To Speedy Trial Does Not Apply During Interim Between Dismissal Of Charges And Subsequent Indictment By Same Sovereign., Nancy Nowlin Kerr

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

Neither Conservation Amendment Nor Police Power Of State Justifies The Taking Of Vested Riparian Rights Without Compensation Under Texas Water Rights Adjudicated Act Of 1967., Janet M. Drewry

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract Forthcoming.

They Call It Justice, By Luther C. West, John S. Cooke

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Books Received, Journal Staff

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

G.I. RIGHTS AND ARMY JUSTICE: THE DRAFTEE'S GUIDE TO MILITARY LIFE AND LAW

By Robert S. Rivkin

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1970. Pp. vii, 383. $1.75.

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HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL ACTION

By Ernst B. Haas

Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1970.Pp. vii, 184.

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INDIRECT TAXATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

By John F. Due

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1970. Pp. v, 201. $9.00.

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INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE REGULATION OF THE RADIO SPECTRUM

By David M. Leive

Dobbs Ferry, N. Y.: Oceana Publications Inc., 1970. Pp. 11, 386.$16.50.

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THE WINDS OF FREEDOM

By Dean Rusk …

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

The Supreme Court-October 1959 Term, Bernard Schwartz

Michigan Law Review

A country's constitutional law is but a reflection of its political, economic, and social life. Not unnaturally, the external conditions of any particular period are bound to have their effects in the legal sphere as well-especially in the field of public law. This is as true of the United States as it is of other countries. From this point of view, the constitutional jurisprudence of the American Supreme Court is only the juristic mirror of the different stages through which American history has passed. 'Our jurisprudence is distinctive,' said Justice Jackson on the 150th anniversary of the Supreme Court, 'in …

Book Reviews, Edwin W. Patterson, Edson R. Sunderland, C E. Griffin

Michigan Law Review

The title of this brilliant little volume might, more accurately, have been, "The Spirits of the Common Law," for it depicts the common law as the battleground of many conflicting spirits, from which a few relatively permanent ideas and ideals have emerged triumphant. As a whole, the book is a pluralistic-idealistic interpretation of legal history. Idealistic, because Dean Pound finds that the fundamentals of the 'common law have been shaped by ideas and ideals rather than by economic determinism or class struggle; he definitely rejects a purely economic interpretation of legal history, although he demands a sociological one (pp. io-ii). …

Book Reviews, Nathan Isaacs, Horace Lafayette Wilgus, Arthur H. Basye, Leonard D. White, Victor H. Lane, Edwin D. Dickinson

Michigan Law Review

What does a judge do when he decides a case? It would be interesting to collect the answers ranging from those furnished by primitive systems of law in which the judge was supposed to consult the gods to the ultra-modern, rather profane system described to me recently by a retrospective judge: "I make up my mind which way the case ought to be decided, and then I see if I can't get some legal ground to make it stick." Perhaps the widespread impression is the curiously erroneous one lampooned by Gnaeus Flavius (Kantorowitz). The judge is supposed to sit at …