The United States-Rumanian Claims Settlement Agreement of March 30, 1960

On March 30, 1960, the United States and Rumania settled by agreement certain claims of American nationals against Rumania. The agreement provides for the payment by Rumania of a lump sum in discharge of those claims. In recent years the device of the en-bloc or lump-sum settlement of international claims has to some extent replaced the use of the mixed claims commission

In Memoriam of Professor George D. Horning Jr.

Tribute to legal scholar, George D. Horning Jr

Richard Bonnot Lillich. In Remembrance of a Civilized Scholar

Tribute to international scholar, Richard Bonnot Lillich

The United States-Rumanian Claims Settlement Agreement of March 30, 1960

On March 30, 1960, the United States and Rumania settled by agreement certain claims of American nationals against Rumania. The agreement provides for the payment by Rumania of a lump sum in discharge of those claims. In recent years the device of the en-bloc or lump-sum settlement of international claims has to some extent replaced the use of the mixed claims commission

Scholarship and Teaching after 175 Years

A quarter century ago, I presided at the 150th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Cincinnati Law School. Newly appointed Justice Sandra Day O\u27Connor came to dedicate the radically refurbished Taft Hall in the spring of 1983 and to say good things about our long history. This year we begin to celebrate the College\u27s 175th anniversary. For its dedicatory issue, the editor-in-chief of the Law Review, Matthew Singer, invited me to write an introduction as well as to reflect on those twenty-five years and the challenges and opportunities I see ahead for us. Especially as an emeritus dean and professor, I continue to speak of our heritage and our future in this unique and remarkable old law school

Jus Cogens: Guarding Interests Fundamental to International Society

The following sections attempt to analyze the concealed uses of the concept jus cogens and to offer an interpretation of its possibilities and dangers for a future world order. First, the inquiry is framed by introducing criteria for peremptory norms, the theme of dual formalism, and the problematic analogy to public order in municipal law. A review of the concept\u27s contemporary development follows. The inquiry then explores ideological conflict and some questions of content, including two recent decisions against the United States. The final section revisits the myth of supernorms, including the problem of dissonance with ordinary norms, incommensurability of the dual normative systems, and a brief note on Cardinal Richelieu\u27s reason of state and international public order

Thinking Things, Not Words: Irvin Rutter\u27s Pragmatic Jurisprudence of Teaching

Those of us in legal education and in the profession of law are in debt to the Law Review for publishing in this issue the last work of the late Professor Irvin Rutter, Law, Language, and Thinking Like a Lawyer. On the occasion of Irvin Rutter\u27s retirement in 1980, I briefly summarized these earlier contributions, locating them within the legal realist tradition, and we awaited the publication of his last work, then still in draft not quite satisfactory to Professor Rutter. In this essay, I situate his final work on teaching law in the pragmatist tradition with special emphasis on Charles Sanders Peirce. I also try to relate the work to scholarly and critical inquiries about law that were just emerging as Rutter completed his 1977 draft