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International Law And The United Nations, University Of Michigan Law School

Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law

In June, 1955, the University of Michigan Law School held a six-day Summer Institute dealing with problems of international law and of the United Nations. This was the eighth in the series of annual Summer Institutes dealing with important problems in areas of public concern, often with particular emphasis upon the comparative or international law aspects involved. The 1955 Institute came at the time of the tenth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter on June 26, 1945, and approximately a decade after the termination of hostilities in World War II. The growth of the United Nations during …

The American Tradition In Foreign Policy, By Frank Tannenbaum, Martin David Dubin

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Edgar Bodenheimer, Joseph P. Witherspoon Jr., Harold D. Lasswell, Mitchell Franklin, Alexander Nekam, Alison Reppy, Page Keeton, Francis A. Allen, J. J. Dukeminier Jr., Maurice Finkelstein

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Treaties And Executive Agreements: Historical Development And Constitutional Interpretation, Wencelas J. Wagner

Articles by Maurer Faculty

The recent proposal to amend the Constitution known as the Bricker Amendment concerns a most vital matter for the nation: its relations with foreign states.

In order to estimate the merits and demerits of the Bricker Amendment it is necessary to get acquainted with the historical development and the constitutional interpretation in the field of international arrangements of the United States. The present observations aim at the presentation of this matter down to the Bricker Amendment. The Amendment itself and the discussion it aroused should be treated in a separate article.

Book Review. Behind The Silken Curtain By B. C. Crum And Palestine Mission By R. Crossman, Fowler V. Harper

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The Present Development And Status Of International Law, Amos Hershey

Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty

Professor Hershey's contribution to this collection is Chapter 6 (pages 134-146) "The Present Status of International Law," and is titled, "The Present Development and Status of International Law."

Treaty-Making Power With Special Reference To The Untied States, Amos S. Hershey

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Road To World Peace: A Plan By Which The United States May Cooperate With Other Nations To Achieve And Preserve The Peace Of The World, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The War With Germany: A Statistical Summary, Leonard P. Ayres

United States Army: Publications

Includes a statistical summary of the larger steps in the military preparation and action of the United States in the First World War (United States involvement, April 6, 1917-November 11, 1918). The data presented were compiled by the several sections of the Statistics Branch of the General Staff. In the main they set forth facts taken from the reports made by the Branch each week during the war to the President, the Secretary of War, and to the Chief of Staff. These have been supplemented by facts and figures secured from the offices of the Statistics Branch maintained during the …

Protection Of Aliens By The United States, Simeon E. Baldwin

Michigan Law Review

Every country owes a duty of protection to aliens who are lawfully within its territory. "An alien friend, however transient his presence may be, is entitled to a temporary protection, and owes in return a temporary allegiance."

Monroe Doctrine Its Status, John F. Simmons

Michigan Law Review

In 1895. President Cleveland in his message to Congress in regard to what has come to be known as the "Venezuela affair" said the Monroe Doctrine "has its place in the code of international law as certainly and as securely as if it were specifically mentioned." To test the accuracy of this statement we must determine as closely as possible what the Monroe Doctrine is and what is the correct meaning of the term "code of international law." Having settled our definitions the issue will be clearly defined and its discussion possibly profitable.

The Calvo And Drago Doctrines, Amos S. Hershey

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Privileges Of Ambassadors And Foreign Ministers, Charles Noble Gregory

Michigan Law Review

The United States receives diplomatic representatives from thirty-seven nations and accredits her representatives to them in return. Six of these on each side are of the highest rank, namely, "Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary," being those received from and accredited to the five great powers of Europe, Austria-Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, and to our sister Republic of Mexico. The rest are almost without exception "Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary," standing in the second rank of "Les Employés Diplomatiques," to use the term adopted at the Congress of Vienna (1815) where the relative rank was determined which attaches to …