Trends in International Business Law: Towards a New Ethnocentricity?

Many legal practitioners and academicians who are sensitive to changes within the area of international business law have sighted signals of a trend toward greater ethnocentricity in the United States. Whether such a trend exists is not an issue that can be disposed of categorically, for the signals must be interpreted in light of the institution in question and the sector of economic activity involved. Moreover, an accurate resolution of the issue requires a comparison of the current signals with those of previous periods. Indeed, the post-Smoot-Hawley Tariff era of the late 1930\u27s and the older mercantilist epoch were periods during which signals indicated strong tendencies toward beggar-my-neighbor policies. On the other hand, the post-World War II era associated with Bretton Woods issued signals that represented a swing toward the recognition of a need for internationally even-handed policies. Since the late 1960\u27s, however, there have been an increasing number of signals which indicate that the United States may be about to return to a policy of economic self-sufficiency and independence

An Introduction to International Civil Practice

As the keynote speaker of this symposium, it is my function to provide a general framework within which the other speakers can develop their specific topics with much more extensive and current knowledge than I have. In a crude way, the importance of the subject matter can be measured by the increase in the number of cases listed under the West key numbers for Judgments which purport to collect all of the cases on the enforcement of foreign judgments in United States courts. The West Modern Federal Practice Digest uses four pages under this caption to list cases for the years from 1939 to 1970. In contrast, the Federal Practice Digest 2d uses seven and three-quarters pages for cases from 1967 to 1977 and the pocket part has another three and one-half pages. Such statistics hide the great disparities in the size and significance of international litigation. At one end of the scale is the mass of litigation triggered by Nigeria\u27s refusal to accept all the cement it had ordered, or the huge uranium contract and antitrust litigation in the United States. At the other end is the case of a New York couple who arranged to send furniture to New York from Vienna and subsequently changed their mind, leaving the antique furniture dealer to resort to the Austrian long-arm rules

War In The American Legal System

My role in this symposium is to analyze the concept of war as it has evolved in the American legal system

Trends in International Business Law: Towards a New Ethnocentricity?

Many legal practitioners and academicians who are sensitive to changes within the area of international business law have sighted signals of a trend toward greater ethnocentricity in the United States. Whether such a trend exists is not an issue that can be disposed of categorically, for the signals must be interpreted in light of the institution in question and the sector of economic activity involved. Moreover, an accurate resolution of the issue requires a comparison of the current signals with those of previous periods. Indeed, the post-Smoot-Hawley Tariff era of the late 1930\u27s and the older mercantilist epoch were periods during which signals indicated strong tendencies toward beggar-my-neighbor policies. On the other hand, the post-World War II era associated with Bretton Woods issued signals that represented a swing toward the recognition of a need for internationally even-handed policies. Since the late 1960\u27s, however, there have been an increasing number of signals which indicate that the United States may be about to return to a policy of economic self-sufficiency and independence

The Treaty-Making Process: A Guide For Outsiders

This article guides the reader step by step through the process by which treaties are created

Going to Court, Internationally

A Review of The International Court of Justice at a Crossroads Edited by Lori Fisler Damrosc