Excerpt from The American Supreme Court as an International Tribunal Whatever form the League of Nations may ultimately take it must contain some provisions for the settlement by judicial means of justiciable disputes between members of the League. For about a century and a quarter the Supreme Court of the United States has been entrusted under the Federal Constitution with the decision of such controversies between the States of the American Union. Since it has worked under peculiar conditions and within a very restricted area the student will see that inferences drawn from its history can only be applied with considerable qualification to any Court of the Nations that may hereafter be set up. Nevertheless this is the only permanent court, as distinguished from occasional arbitration commissions, which has hitherto attempted in any degree to discharge the functions of a true international tribunal, and it is therefore clearly desirable that the nature of its work should be as widely as possible studied at the present time. This essay aims at giving in a small compass a reasoned summary of all the inter-State cases hitherto decided in the Supreme Court. As I am not writing primarily for lawyers or other technical students I have so far as possible avoided all technicalities. Questions of procedure, for example, are almost entirely ignored, and I have also passed lightly over many matters which, although important in themselves, are of interest mainly to students of American constitutional law. The Supreme Court has been keenly conscious of its functions as an international tribunal, and it is this aspect of its work which I wish to emphasize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.+++++++++++++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: +++++++++++++++Yale Law LibraryLP3Y005970019200101The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926"Delivered in the form of lectures at Oxford in the summer term of 1919."--Pref. "Printed in U.S.A." "Table of cases" p. vii-viii.New York; London; Toronto; Melbourne; Bombay: Oxford University Press, c1920viii, 123 p.: maps.; 25 cmUnited StatesUnited KingdomCanadaAustraliaIndia

Excerpt from Texts Illustrating the Constitution of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Permament Court of International Justice I have chosen as the subject of these lectures a comparison between the Supreme Court of the United States and the Permanent Court of International Justice. I have made this choice Because such a comparison appears to me to afford an object-lesson of supreme value at the present moment. Owing to our insularity, which is both a virtue and a vice, we are, perhaps, the most prone of all nations to ignore or reject the experience of other communities, even if they happen to be Of our own race. Now the origin and history of the Supreme Court present us with a study in international organisation which has proved most fruitful in the various attempts which have been made to establish International Arbitral Tribunals and International Courts of Justice. It is a study from which one rises with a confident belief in the future success of the Permanent Court of International Justice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.