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Western and Soviet Perspectives on International Law—A Comparison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Oliver J. Lissitzyn
Oliver J. Lissitzyn*
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Columbia University School of Law
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Proceedings of the American Society of International Law at its annual meeting (1921-1969) , Volume 53 , 1959 , pp. 21 - 30
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1959

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References

1 Rear Admiral Chester Ward, Judge Advocate General of the Navy, “Space Law as a Way to World Peace,” The JAG Journal, February, 1959, p. 10, at p. 25.

2 2 Anne Comnene, Alexiade 207 (Leib's trans., 1943).

3 Nussbaum, A Concise History of the Law of Nations 19, 24, 48, 53–54 (rev. ed., 1954); see also Nussbaum, “Forms and Observance of Treaties in the Middle Ages and the Early Sixteenth Century,” in Lipsky, ed., Law and Politics in the World Community 191–196 (1953); and Schwarzenberger, “International Law in Early English Practice,” 25 British Tear Book of International Law 52 (1948).

4 For some examples, see Bigelow, Breaches of Anglo-American Treaties v-vii (1917).

5 Dunn, The Diplomatic Protection of Americans in Mexico 427 (1933).

8 Cf. Corbett, Law and Society in the Belations of States 9 (1951).

7 For an extensive examination of the use of international law as a tool of national policy see Oorbett, Law in Diplomacy (1959).

8 See Dillard, “Some Aspects of Law and Diplomacy,” 91 Acad6mie de Droit International, Eecueil des Cours 445 (1957, I).

9 Churchill, The Gathering Storm 544, 547, 579 (1948).

10 Churchill, The Grand Alliance 482 (1950).

11 United States, Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression: Opinion and Judgment, p. 140.

12 Washington Sunday Star, Feb. 3, 1946, as quoted in Bishop, International Law: Cases and Materials 608 (1953).

13 United States, Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951, Public Law 213—82d Congress, First Eeport to Congress, October 15, 1952, pp. 54–55. See, further, United States, Problems of Economic Defense: Mutual Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951 (the Battle Act), Second Eeport to Congress, January, 1953, pp. 78–80.

14 Corbett, The Study of International Law 26 (1955).

15 Corbett, Law and Society in the Eelations of States 13 (1951). Cf. Briggs, The Law of Nations: Cases, Documents, and Notes 20 (2nd ed., 1952).

16 See, e.g., three interesting case studies by George Ginsburgs: “The Soviet Union and the Problem of Refugees and Displaced Persons 1917–1956,” 51 A.J.I.L. 325 (1957); “Soviet Use of International Law: Eastern Poland in 1939,” 52 A.J.I.L. 69 (1958); and “The Soviet Union as a Neutral, 1939–1941,” 10 Soviet Studies 12 (Oxford, 1958). See also Kulski, “Present Trends in Soviet International Law,” 1953 Proceedings, American Society of International Law 59.

17 See, e.g., Akademiya Nauk S.S.S.R., Institut Prava, Mezhdunarodnoye Pravo (1957).