The Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law will hold its sixth Summer Program in Foreign Law on the Columbia University campus during the period from June 4 through June 29, 1962.

In a recent well-documented article Domke has criticized this writer for not having cited a single case for a proposition contained in the writer’s book, Internationales Konfiskations- und Enteignungsrecht.

Research fellowships for studies on the legal aspects of space activities have been awarded by the American Society of International Law to the following applicants: Spencer M. Beresford of Bethesda, Maryland, David M. Leive of Chevy Chase, Maryland, Robert D. Crane of Vienna, Virginia, and Stephen Gorove of Akron, Ohio.

The United States Department of State and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are jointly publishing “A Catalog of Files and Microfilms of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, 1920-1945.”

The material for this section has been prepared by a committee consisting of Richard B. Bilder, Gordon A. Christenson, Stanley L. Cohen, Thomas T. F. Huang, Sylvia E. Nilsen, Herbert K. Reis, And Alfred P. Rubin, Under The Chairmanship of Ernest L. Kerley, all of the Office of the Legal Adviser, Department of State, with the exception of Mr. Rubin, who is in the Department of Defense.

Attention is invited to the policy of the Society’s library to acquire briefs of international law interest submitted to courts and arbitral tribunals in the United States and abroad.

In his editorial comment, “Some Legal Aspects of the Berlin Crisis,” Professor Quincy Wright questions the legal soundness of the Western position with respect to the Four-Power status of Berlin.

The Institute of Air and Space Law of McGill University has announced that its twelfth session will commence in September, 1962. The length of the course is two years.

The doctrinal approach of international lawyers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has been viewed by some as rigid.

The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University, which is a graduate school of international affairs administered with the cooperation of Harvard University, has announced its program of study for 1962–1963.

Pursuant to §123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, 68 Stat. 940 (1954), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 2153 (1959), the Agreement with the Government of the Argentine Republic Concerning the Civil Uses of Atomic Energy, June 22, 1962, T.I.A.S., No. 5125, required that materials transferred pursuant to that Agreement remain within the jurisdiction of the Government of the Argentine Republic or of a country with which the United States has an Agreement for co-operation.

The American Society of International Law is offering a small number of research fellowships for (1) studies of the legal aspects of space activities and (2) studies of the international legal problems of federalism.

The 56th Annual Meeting of the Society will be held at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Washington, D. C, from April 26 to 28, 1962. The tentative program has been announced.

At its fourth meeting in November, 1960, the Committee had recognized that Foreign Relations was “faced with a crisis of major proportions.” Taking note of “the fantastic expansion of materials in the archives of the State Department during the war and post-war years, an expansion which reflects the enlarged role of the United States in world affairs,”

As announced in the Society’s letter No. 8 to members, the Society has received from the Ford Foundation a grant of $500,000 to support the Society’s expanding program of studies and research on foreign investment and economic development, space activities, federalism, and disarmament.