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This article will review the traditional approach to nationalization and assess the new theories in light of the FSIA [the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976], Alfred Dunhill, Inc. v. Republic of Cuba, 425 U.S. 682 (1976) [Dunhill], and recent case law. George Kahale
It is this integration—the reduction in trade barriers between countries—that is explored in Beverly May Carl’s Economic Integration Among Developing Nations: Law and Policy. Professor Carl focuses on regional common market associations of developing nations, their benefits as well as their difficulties, and their utility as a means of reducing trade barriers and dependence on Read More …
The regulatory scheme mentioned is the Foreign Investment Review Act (FIRA)passed by the Parliament of Canada in December 1973. The FIRA was a response to a growing nationalist feeling in the early 1970’s, from which developed a resentment of the seeming omnipresence of foreign business in the Canadian economy and a fear of the long-term Read More …
The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT), the 109-nation cooperative responsible for the vast majority of international satellite service, was recently presented with what may be its greatest challenge since its inception over twenty years ago. The consortium, hailed by many as a model among international organizations, faces possible competition from five American companies (Applicants) that Read More …
The changes in United States antitrust laws effected by the Export Trading Company Act of 1982 have received the greatest public attention, probably because of the highly unusual procedure for antitrust immunity certification and the changes in United States antitrust jurisdiction. Given the history of banking law in the U.S, however, the bank investment provisions Read More …
Weighing principles and considering rules in the context of judicial adjudication to create a general theory of State and Law is a challenge of hermeneutics that the Author makes. To meet this challenge the Author uses a decision of an administrative court in Portugal – the Tribunal Administrativo Central Norte. The factpattern of that decision Read More …
This Article explores the relationship between justice needs and private property in the constitutional takings provisions of the Indian, Australian, and American constitutions. Building upon established scholarship, it develops a theoretical framework within which to consider the way in which a state balances the requirement to provide minimal levels of justice for its citizens through Read More …
Each society as it exists through time has a particular philosophy of history. This point, where “ . . . historical and political theory meet” is “a set of ideas about what happens, what can be known and what [is] done” in a society.1 This philosophy of history is intimately intertwined with the foundational myths Read More …
This section discusses the recent Supreme Court decision in Trans World Airlines v. Franklin Mint Corp. which includes an approach to Article 22 of the War saw Convention which addresses issues in aviation. James K. Noble III
This Note will analyze the court of appeals decision in Cooper v. Ateliers de la Motobecane, S.A.,and examine the usefulness and suitability of permitting attachments pending arbitration proceedings. Peter J. Fitzpatrick