A Guide to Diplomatic Practice

Sir Ernest Satow\u27s Guide to Diplomatic Practice was first published in 1917. It was the first systematic treatise on the practice and procedure of diplomacy to be printed in the English language, covering a field already occupied in other languages.... ...[T]he author compiles a wealth of data accumulated in research and long experience in what may perhaps be described as the professional diplomatist\u27s book of forms and precedents... It is chiefly a digest of diplomatic data intended to afford practical guidance in the routine of diplomatic organization, precedence and ceremonial, procedure, immunities, international congresses and conferences, the making of treaties and other international agreements, and the use of good offices, mediation, and arbitration. What the learned author set out to do, he has done in really excellent fashion

The New Law of Nations

In these disillusioned years which are the aftermath of the World War the law of nations has come to be regarded in many quarters with a kind of sophisticated skepticism. It is freely asserted that the law has proved a futile reliance, that it has broken down, and it is asked--with an air of unbelief too obvious to be misunderstood--What is there that is ever likely to be done about it

International Aspects of Prohibition Enforcement

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution prohibits the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes. 40 Stat. io5O, 1941. In the National Prohibition Cases. 253 U. S. 350, 386, the amendment was said to be operative throughout the entire territorial limits of the United States. As originally enacted, the National Prohibition Act did not in terms define its territorial field, but a supplemental provision afterwards enacted declares that the act shall apply not only to the United States but to all territory subject to its jurisdiction. 42 Stat. 222. In other words, its field expressly coincides with that of the Amendment

The Equality of States, a Study in the History of Law

This is a reprint in book form of three essays recently published by Dr. Goebel in the Columbia Law Review. The author attempts, as he himself has expressed it, \u27to indicate that the historical background of the doctrine of equality of states in international law is of considerable importance not only for the purpose of fixing the origin of the doctrine as a coherent principle of law, but also because it indicates how necessary and inevitable the notion has been from the very inception of international relationships in Europe.\u2

International Law

Professor Dickson reviews International Law, by C. G. Fenwick, noting that there are many such books available on the topic: monographs, casebooks, digests, collections of documents etc. He finds some of the material worthy of passing criticism and notes that The chapters vary somewhat in quality and quantity. But Dickinson also praises the fine tone of impartiality which makes it possible to present matters both recent and controverted in the restrained and temperate manner of the true scientist

The Permanent International Court of Justice

For the first time in history leading powers both great and small have been able to agree upon a plan for an international court of justice. The plan was formulated last summer by an advisory committee of jurists sitting at The Hague. Since then it has been submitted to the Council and the Assembly of the League of Nations and has been approved. It will come into operation as soon as the project has been ratified by a majority of the nations belonging to the League

Gratuitous Partial Assignments

Is it possible to make an effective and irrevocable assignment by way of gift of part of a close action? There are no obvious reasons why it should not be possible. Gifts of a great variety of valuable rights are favored and protected by law. Why not a gift of part of a chose in action

THE MIXED COURTS OF EGYPT

A review of THE MIXED COURTS OF EGYPT By Jasper Yeates Brinton

Review: INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATIONS

A Review of : INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATIONS Edited by John Bassett Moore