LETTERS OF CREDIT: EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES OF INJUNCTIONS AGAINST HONOR

Courts have been struggling to determine the proper grounds for the issuance of an ”injunction against honor. The purpose of this Note is to analyze exactly which circumstances warrant an injunction against honor. Part I will discuss the origin and development of the relevant law in this area. Part II will analyze those situations in Read More …

LAW: THE MOST POWERFUL ALTERNATIVE TO WAR

The single greatest enemy of law is war. I refer not merely to the history of foreign dictatorships where repression is tightened still further at a time of military conflict. No, I refer also, sad to say, to the painful experience of our own country. Legal tradition gave way to military pressure. But cannot law Read More …

LAND ACQUISITION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

The book’s introduction reveals a startling premise that will potentially affect all counties, not just those in the Third World: by the year 2000, almost sixty urban centers will have populations in excess of five million, and almost fifty of those urban centers will lie in developing countries. The essential structure of Mr. Kitay’s book Read More …

KEEPING UP THE NATION’S SPIRITS: AN EXCEPTION TO THE BROAD PROHIBITION OF ARTICLE 95 OF THE TREATY OF ROME

This Note examines the Court’s current construction of article 95. This construction involves a fairly strict and straightforward application of article 95’s broad prohibition upon discriminatory internal taxation by one member state against imports from another member state. The Court has also created an exception to this broad prohibition. This Note will define this exception Read More …

KEAR V. HILTON: ENFORCING THE TREATY ON EXTRADITION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA

This Note examines the justness of the Kear decision. The current provisions of the Extradition Treaty, the powers of bounty hunters, and the role of the courts in regulating extradition are discussed. The Note concludes that extradition was not only proper, but necessary in order to maintain the Extradition Treaty’s goal of suppressing crime through Read More …