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The European Economic Community -- A Profile, Utz P. Toepke Jan 1981

The European Economic Community -- A Profile, Utz P. Toepke

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

To enable those readers who may be unfamiliar with the history and structure of the European Economic Community to better understand the articles in this symposium, Dr. Toepke reviews the background, the institutions and the underlying theory of this unique legal phenomenon.


Disqualification Of Counsel: The Westinghouse Litigation, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1979

Disqualification Of Counsel: The Westinghouse Litigation, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

The motion to disqualify counsel is becoming increasingly important in pre-trial strategy. Discusses one case arising out of Westinghouse Electric Corporation's alleged breach of long­term uranium supply contracts, in which a disqualification motion was sustained against Westinghouse's counsel, Kirkland & Ellis.


Are Human Rights Good For International Business , Anthony D'Amato Jan 1979

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 …


Can/Should Computers Replace Judges?, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1977

Can/Should Computers Replace Judges?, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

Speculates concerning judicial decision-making to test, at least theoretically, what some of the implications of jurisprudential advances might be. Proposes as the means of making this test a consideration of whether a computer may be so programmed as to replace the judicial function of judges.


Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War, Anthony D'Amato Jan 1970

Massachusetts In The Federal Courts: The Constitutionality Of The Vietnam War, Anthony D'Amato

Faculty Working Papers

One of the most singular pieces of legislation in American constitutional history passed the Massachusetts legislature in 1970, and was signed into law. It provided that, except for an emergency, no inhabitant of Massachusetts inducted into or serving in the armed forces "shall be required to serve" abroad in an armed hostility that has not been declared a war by Congress under Article I, Section 8, clause 11 of the US Constitution. A conflict between state law and national policy was created.