Bibliographic DetailsNew York: Baker, Voorhis & Co. 1915Book ReviewIt seems appropriate to review these books together because of their common authorship, their similarity of arrangement, and the leading roles which the two nations named have played over against each other in maritime warfare during…
Bibliographic DetailsPrinceton: University Press, 1915Book ReviewTo the growing literature about the Panama Canal has just been added this little volume, discussing one phase only of the remarkable work on the Isthmus-the government under which the construction was prosecuted, and that under which t…
Bibliographic DetailsChicago: La Salle Extension University. 1915Book ReviewThis little work, as its title indicates and its preface declares, "is intended as a brief, non-technical statement of the underlying principles of international law. It is not written for the specialist, but designed s…
Bibliographic DetailsThe Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1915Book ReviewThis little volume, containing the legislation enacted by a belligerent in respect of enemy territory under military occupation, needs no detailed description other than that contained in the title. Although the title is given in Engli…
Bibliographic DetailsThe Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1915Book ReviewThis is a publication by the well-known Dutch publisher Nijhoff, containing the Declaration of Paris of 1856, the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868, the Hague Declarations of 1899 concerning asphyxiating gases and expanding bullets…
Bibliographic DetailsWashington: Government Printing Office. 1915Book ReviewThis volume is the third in a series of guides which are being published by the Library of Congress with the three-fold aim of "first, to furnish the lawyer and the student of comparative law with information as to the …
Bibliographic DetailsMunich and Leipzig: Duncker and Humblot. 1913Book ReviewThis book is an exposition of the postulate that the truest insight into the evolution of law is to be obtained through the study, not of statutes, commentaries, or court decisions, but of society itself. Professor Ehrlich …
Bibliographic DetailsWashington: Government Printing Office. 1913Book ReviewAlthough this volume is the second in point of time in the series of guides to foreign law which are being published under the auspices of the Library of Congress, logically it stands at the beginning of the series. It deals…
Bibliographic DetailsCaracas: Tipografia "Cosmos," 1915Book ReviewThe above is a draft law apparently intended to codify the Venezuelan application of private international law. The project is divided into four general heads or titles, and some general principles by way of preliminary prov…
Bibliographic DetailsThe Hague: Martinus Nijhoff. 1915Book ReviewAs the war drags on, two facts become clearer and clearer: first, that competition in armaments, and therefore periodic war, will go on, unless a firm league of nations competent to prevent war by force can be created when the war ends…
Bibliographic DetailsBaltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1915Book ReviewThe diplomatic events connected with the War of 1812 with Great Britain have been quite fully reviewed and discussed by a number of American writers, among whom may be mentioned Henry Adams, Admiral Mahan, McMaster, Schouler, Wo…
Bibliographic DetailsPrinceton: The Banner Press. 1915Book ReviewThe author's definition says: "Intervention is interference by a state or states in the external affairs of another state without its consent, or in its internal affairs with or without its consent." This definition appea…
Bibliographic DetailsMunchen: Duncker & Hunblot. Vol. II. 1912Book ReviewWe have at last before us the concluding part (pages 609 to 1025 of Vol. II) of Professor Zitelmann's work on the Conflict of Laws. Volume I made its appearance in 1897; pages 1 to 608 of Volume II followed in 1903 and the …
Bibliographic DetailsCambridge: University Press. 1914Book ReviewDr. Westlake, who might well be considered the " DOYEN " of English publicists in international law, both public and private, died April 14, 1913, after a long life of great distinction and usefulness. Shortly after his death…
Bibliographic DetailsNaples: Luigi Pierro & Figlio. 1914Book ReviewThe question of double taxation in international law is considered in this pamphlet. It is one which may conceivably have considerable practical importance as part of a general scheme of equitable taxation, but the doubt arises at th…
Bibliographic DetailsRome: Athenaeum. 1914Book ReviewThis study of the legal position of foreign commercial associations in Italy, particularly as affected by Articles 230 to 232 of the Italian Code of Commerce, is of very considerable length and bears every evidence of serious and careful preparati…
Bibliographic DetailsNew York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1914Book ReviewThis volume is called "The Diplomacy of the Age of Absolutism." It opens with European diplomatic history in 1648, beginning with Franceunder Louis XIV, with "his precocious avidity." Under the guidance of that m…
Bibliographic DetailsPrinceton University Press. 1914.Book ReviewIt is believed that international law is best treated in monographical form. It is too much to ask that ordinary persons should be familiar with international law as a whole and in all its details, and to write with equal ease and accu…
Bibliographic DetailsNew York: E. P. Dutton & Co. 1915Book ReviewThis volume is not a treatise upon the foreign and colonial policy of Italy, but a collection of speeches delivered before the Italian Parliament during the years 1903-1909 when Signor Tittoni was Minister of Foreign Affairs, on matter…
Bibliographic DetailsFrankfort am Main: Verlag von Joseph Baer & Co., 1914Book Review It appears from the publisher's notice accompanying this work that for some years the author has been engaged in the task of preparing a sevcral volume commentary on the rules of land warfare-a much needed guid…
Bibliographic DetailsBerlin and Munich: J. Schweitzer. 1913Book ReviewThis monograph is a handy resume of the progress made down to July, 1913, in the development, locally and internationally, of the law applicable in peace and in war to radiotelegraphy. The author starts with the pious voeu that th…
Bibliographic DetailsParis: Recueil Sirey. 1915Book ReviewThe concept Natural Law is a permanent possession of the moral and juridical world. Since the first speculations on the nature of law and justice up to the present day, there never has been a moment when the idea of Natural Law in one or more…
Bibliographic DetailsBreslau: J. U. Kern's Verlag. 1914Book ReviewThis little book is the second of a series of international law monographs published by Doctors Schticking and Wehberg. It is divided into four parts. The first discusses America and International Law; the second, the History of P…
Bibliographic DetailsBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914Book ReviewThis study of European expansion and world politics is volume one of a proposed two-volume work on "World Diplomacy." It traces in detail the origin and development of the larger colonial expansion movements of European …
Bibliographic DetailsCambridge: University Press. 1914Book ReviewIn this edition the original essay of 1896 is reprinted with the omission of the last two pages, and there are added "Aaron's Rod Blossoming, or Jus Divinum in 1646," "Erastus and Erastianism," and "Bartlou…
Bibliographic DetailsOhio: The New Werner Company. 1913Book ReviewThis work, despite its general title, is confined almost exclusively to a consideration of the treaty rights of foreign consuls in the United States with respect to the administration of estates of their national's decedent in thi…
Bibliographic DetailsParis: Larose & Tenin. 1911.Book ReviewAny book of Geny's will be approached with a natural prejudice in its favor. The learned professor of law at Nancy has already given hostages on the field of jurisprudence which no one would wish to have restored. He is one of the few l…
Bibliographic DetailsNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914.Book ReviewWe learn from the preface that this "delicate and difficult task" was entrusted to Professor Dunning by President Nicholas Murray Butler, representing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and by authority…
Bibliographic DetailsNew York: Macmillan Company, 1912Book ReviewThe above is a work of some 532 pages beside a Table of Cases of 8 pages, a " List of Authorities " of 29 pages and a careful index of 26 pages. The purpose of Prof. Hershey is, as he tells us, "to furnish the teacher an…
Bibliographic DetailsLondon: Stevens & Haynes. 1914Book ReviewThis, the fourth edition of this well known work, has been prepared for -publication by Coleman Phillipson, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-atLaw, himself an important contributor to the science of international law. Many improvements are …
Bibliographic DetailsParis: Arthur Rousseau. 1913Book ReviewThis work, the popularity of which is evidenced by its having reached an eighth edition, is entirely elementary in character, and is, as it professes, intended especially for the use of students of law and candidates for diplomatic and cons…
Bibliographic DetailsWashington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 1914Book ReviewIt is not for a reviewer to judge whether this inquiry was worth attempting, but only to describe how it was made, how far its conclusions are likely to guide the world's actions and conscience, also whet…
Bibliographic DetailsNamur: Jacques Godenne. Book Review In an introductory chapter M. Glesner traces the history of the legislation of his country relative to nationality, beginning with the union of the Provinces with France in 1794, indicating the effect of the political events following the occu…
Bibliographic DetailsLondon: Stevens & Haynes, 1914Book ReviewThe title of this book may appear frigid when interpreted too strictly in the vernacular; the metaphor is not geographical but mathematical and is adopted-because the author conceives the status of an individual to be susceptible of diffe…
Bibliographic DetailsSeoul: Government General of Chosen. January, 1914Book ReviewChosen, an ancient name of northern Korea, was officially adopted as the name of the new dependency after its annexation by Japan. Koreaonce included a large part of southern Manchuria. Korean graves are numerous there…
Bibliographic DetailsUrbana: University of Illinois. 1913Book ReviewAs a field of historical investigation, the diplomacy of the American Revolution is by no means virgin soil, nor has the question of the West been neglected in the study of the negotiations leading to the treaty of 1783. Dr. Phillip…
Bibliographic DetailsParis: JurisClasseurs. 1914Book ReviewThis monograph may be resolved into two parts: first, an introduction dealing with the forms, the history, the legal character, and the general application of the most-favored-nation clause; second, a discussion of the "Effets de la cla…
Bibliographic DetailsBrussels: Bureau de la Revue. 1913Book ReviewIt may admnit of doubt whether this interesting history of the appropriation of Turkish Tripoli by Italy is properly a subject of review in a journal of international law, for the writer tells us at the outset of his volume of two hun…
Bibliographic DetailsLondon: Smith, Elder & Co. 1914Book ReviewThis beautifully printed volume of 157 pages is an affectionate memorial to Professor Westlake, compiled, at the suggestion and with the cooperation of Mrs. Westlake, by his friends and associates in many lands. It consists of eleven cha…
Bibliographic DetailsLondon: Stevens & Sons, Limited, 1914Book ReviewIt seems almost a mockery to speak or write of the rules of international law at a time when every principle looking to the peaceful settlement of disputes involving nations and national laws appears to be toppling in one vast cata…
Bibliographic DetailsYale University Press. 1913Book Review The name chosen for this book is more startling than the proposals which it makes. It has had the desired effect of attracting attention; but because of it the book has probably met with more condemnation than praise, in the United States a…
Bibliographic DetailsWashington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 1913Book ReviewThis report on the neutrality laws of the United States was prepared by the author in pursuance of a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace "that the Divisi…
Bibliographic DetailsHabana: Imprenta "El Siglo XX" de Aurelio Miranda. 1914Book Review "La Autarquia Personal," being a study of private international law, by Dr. Antonio S. de Bustamante y Sirven, Professor of Public and Private International Law in the University of Havana and…
Bibliographic DetailsWashington, D. C. 1914Book ReviewThe appearance of an authoritative handbook of the laws governing the operations of war on land coming, as it does, during the pendency of a great European war, is most opportune. The strategic and tactical principles governing military operation…
Bibliographic DetailsShanghai: The Commercial Press, Ltd. 1917Book ReviewThis work, first prepared as a thesis for the University of London and subsequently revised and enlarged, is the result of a very painstaking, comparative study of China's treaties with other Powers from the earliest, that …
Bibliographic DetailsParis: A. Pillet. 1913Book ReviewIn the present volume the eminent Professor of the Faculty of Law of Paris treats of four international conventions now in force relating to the jurisdiction of courts, and to the enforcement of foreign judgments: The Franco-Italian treaty of Mar…
Bibliographic DetailsLondon: Sweet & Maxwell, Limited. 1918Book ReviewBrief, pointed, impartial and informing, several of the papers in this collection would serve as articles for an encyclopaedia of international law. Very little discussion that followed the reading of the papers is printed, but wh…
Bibliographic DetailsParis: A. Pedone. 1913Book ReviewThe value of this brochure to the publicist is its objective completeness. M. Julliot devotes at least four-fifths of his space to the conditions confronted by the sanitary corps on the modern battlefield and the possibility of securing improveme…
Bibliographic DetailsZurich: Max Rascher Verlag. 1918Book ReviewThe author informs us that in August, 1914, he was in the midst of the preparatory labors for the Twenty First World Peace Congress, which was to have convened in his home city, Vienna, one month later. The outbreak of war was to him, a…
Bibliographic DetailsMadrid: F. Semper y Compafiia. 1911Book ReviewThese ten lectures of the distinguished Argentine statesman and publicist, Dr. Estanislao S. Zeballos, on "Positive International Justice" were delivered in his course on Private International Law, or, as he calls it, "…