The purpose of this book is to provide graduate students, professional engineers, military officers, and weapons-systems planners with a comprehensive grounding in the technology, evolution, functions, costs, impacts on society, utility, and limi- tations of modern strategic weapons systems.
The development of the judicial control of the European Communities is perhaps best illustrated by comparing the first decision the Court of Justice rendered in December 1954, under the ECSC Treaty, with its preliminary rulings van Gend & Loos (1962), ENEL (1964) and Simmenthal II (1978) rendered under the EEC Treaty.
was discussed by the Institut de Droit International at Siena 1 and recently, in 1954, it was the principal item of the meeting of the Netherlands Branch of the International Law Association 2.
to his suggestions for corrective action at government level, will naturally vary according to the interests of each government in upholding the ap- proach it regards as consistent with its own basic interests and those of its international airline.
One of the most unfortunate facts about the relationship of the United States with Latin America is that only in recent years has there been any appreciable amount of intellectual interchange with reference to law.
to Seeking the answer to the three basic questions of contempo- rary private international law, I also deemed it essential to out- line to the reader the historical development of the different concepts of this particular branch of law, for without the know- ledge of this history it is impossible to understand the contempo- rary problems.
In international law the authority of the writers has been great and the Statute of the International Court of Justice still takes cognizance of them as subsidiary sources.
The most important sipgle factor in guaranteeing the effective pro- tection of human rights - including economic and property interest- is that private individuals and groups be capable of maintaining a judicial action against any sovereign State causing them injury.
Eighteen years after the United States presented its plan for the international control of atomic energy to the United Nations, the first major arms control agreement was signed between the United States and the Soviet Union.
If the United States of Europe should become a reality in the future, it is highly probable that the Court of Justice of the European Communities, now sitting in Luxembourg, will be transformed into the supreme court of the new federation.
The present volume reproduces with slight changes the course of lectures given at The Hague in 1972 under the title of "e;The General Principles of Private International Law"e;.
One respect in which the United Nations has departed most widely from the League of Nations in its practice has been the method adopted by the Security Coundl for handling legal questions that arise in connection with its work.
Since World War I scholars and practitioners alike have addressed themselves to defining and assessing the "e;new diplomacy,"e; which the British diplomatist Harold Nicolson has branded the "e;American method.
The essays and commentaries in this collection were presented at a Con- ference on Problems of International Law in the Western Hemisphere, the Second Conference on Problems of Regional International Law under the joint sponsorship of the American Society of International Law and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, April 2 & 3, 1971.
One of the reasons for the speed with which international law has been changing in recent years has been the acceleration in the development of technology.
The reports collected in this book were prepared at the initiative and under the auspices of the Project on International Procedure of the School of Law of Columbia University within the framework of its co-operation with the Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure, a body created by Act of Congress of September 2, 1958, 72 Stat.
This is one those rare prefaces in which the author need not attempt to justify, or apologize for, the addition of another book to an already over- burdened field.
Doctor Hyder's meticulous and comprehensive study throws much- needed light on the often invoked but little understood concept of "e;discrimination"e; in international law.
The contract of employment is the legal instrument which regulates the conditions of employment of the vast majority of the working 1 people of the world.
The classical concept ofInternationalLa w, as developed by Gentilis, Gro- tius and their successors, accepted as its starting point the sovereignty of states, from which it followed that (r) the rules of International Law were based upon the general consent of those states; and (2) that, since state sovereignty was not capable of limitation, otherwise than by the consent of the state itself, in the last resort, International Law must accept the fact of war.
Six years after the rendering of the Nuremberg Judgment world conditions are not such as to encourage a study on what constituted its principal innovation in the legal field: the punishment of the authors of aggressive war.
In contemporary ethical discussion widespread concern about the potential risks of genetic engineering is raising new and fundamental questions about our responsibilities towards unborn generations.
On behalf of the Russian Federation Committee on Water Economy, I would like to welcome the participants of the NATO-sponsored Workshop on the Problems of the Caspian Sea and the Circum-Caspian States.
When the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty entered into force on 14 January 1998, a new phase commenced for the Antarctic Treaty System.
This volume is based on the presentations and deliberations of an Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "e;Caspian Sea: A Quest for Environmental Security"e; that was held on March 15-19, 1999, in Venice (Italy).
This book is the first to systematically illustrate the application of the New York Convention in China in English, integrating theory with practical cases.
The member states are facing the choice between either reaping the benefits of increasing integration in a certain area - in this case the capital markets - attended by a significant reduction in national powers of autonomous decision-making and independence, or retaining this national independence enabling them to pursue their own policy objectives with the aid of instruments selected at their discretion.
