University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository
Publication date
01/02/1947
Field of study
International law is generally defined or described as law applicable to relations between states. States are said to be the subjects of international law and individuals only its objects. Treatises on international law accordingly usually proceed at the very outset to examine the nature and essential characteristics of the fictitious jural person known as the state
I think in approaching the subject of Jurisdiction it is pertinent to note that anyone exercising authority of the United States Government is from time to time necessarily concerned with problems of jurisdiction