Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2017
The state traders of Eastern Europe are arguing that the principle of equality of states enshrined in the United Nations Charter must be extended to international commercial intercourse to prevent discrimination. This was the theme of the opening session of a recent conference of scholars gathered in Rome to consider the impact of state trading upon the law governing commercial relations of states.
1 The conference was held under the auspices of the International Association of Legal Science under contract with U.N.E.S.C.O., Feb. 24-March 1, 1958. Emil Sandström (Sweden) presided, and Harold J. Berman (U. S. A.) was general reporter. Participants were Tullio Ascarelli (Italy), Eudolph Bystricky (Czechoslovakia), Alexander Goldstajn (Yugoslavia), Richard N. Gardner and John N. Hazard (U. S. A.), Trajan Ionasco (Rumania), Feder Kalinytehev (U.S.S.R.), Clive M. Schmitthoff and Kurt Lipstein (U. K.), Henryk Trammer (Poland), André Tunc (France), Luben Vassiliev (Bulgaria), Paul L. VanReepingen (Belgium), Mario Matteucci (International Institute for the Unification of Private Law), André Bertrand and Samuel Pisar (U.N.E.S.C.O.).
2 For a summary of the paper, see Domke, Marti and Hazard, John N., ‘’ State Trading and the Most-Favored-Nation Clause,” 52 A.J.I.L. 55 (1958).Google Scholar