Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2017
The five issues of Sovetskoe Gosudarstvo i Pravo which are here reviewed (Nos. 6, 7 and 8 of 1954, and Nos. 1 and 2 of 1955) contain a series of articles devoted to a discussion of the basic notions of international law. This discussion is related to the preparation of a new textbook for Soviet law schools the completion of which this year has been announced by the A. Ya. Vyshinsky Institute of Law, a branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
* The United States deposited its instrument of ratification on Aug. 2, 1955.
1 Reviewed below, p. 592.
2 Report of Committee on Study of Legal Problems of the United Nations, Proceedings of the Society, 1952, pp. 216–220.
* See Report of Commission of International Association of Democratic Lawyers on “U. S. Crimes in Korea,” dated Peking, March 31, 1952. Dr. Brandweiner was President of the Commission.