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International Law and the Role of Domestic Legal Systems. By Benedetto Conforti. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1993. Pp. xxii, 201. Index. Dfl.1135; $82.50; L54.000.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Harold G. Maier
Harold G. Maier*
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University Law School
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 88 , Issue 4 , October 1994 , pp. 840 - 843
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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References

1 212 Recueil des Cours (1988 V).

2 Cf. Harold G. Maier, The Principles of Sovereignty, Sovereign Equality, and National Self-Determination, in International Law and International Security: Military and Political Dimensions 241, 243 (P. B. Stephan III & B. M. Klimenko eds., 1991).

3 Cf. Equal Employment Opportunity Comm’n v. Arabian Am. Oil Co., 499 U.S. 244, 248 (1991).

4 Article 38(2) of the Statute of the ICJ gives opinions of scholars and judicial opinions equal status as secondary sources of international law.

5 Restatement (Third) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States 392–93 (1988) [hereinafter Restatement III].

6 Letter from Acting Legal Adviser Jack B. Tate to Dep’t of Justice (May 19, 1952), 26 Dep’t St. Bull. 984 (1952).

7 See National City Bank v. Republic of China, 348 U.S. 356 (1955); Victory Transport, Inc. v. Comisaria General, 336 F.2d 354 (2d Cir. 1964), cert, denied, 381 U.S. 934 (1965). For a description of the role of the executive branch in sovereign immunity cases before the passage of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, see Harold G. Maier, The Proposed Sovereign Immunities Act: Its Effect on Judicial Deference, 70 ASIL Proc. 48 (1976); Harold G. Maier & E. E. Cheatham, Private International Law and Its Sources, 22 Vand. L. Rev. 27, 36–37, 83–87 (1968); Harold G. Maier, Sovereign Immunity and Act of State: Correlative or Conflicting Policies?, 35 U. Cin. L. Rev. 556 (1966).

8 The author’s misunderstanding may have resulted from a misreading of the Restatement’s description of efforts by the bar and the State Department to encourage the passage of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976. See Restatement III, supra note 5, at 393.

9 Id. §442, comment a.

10 W.S. Kirkpatrick & Co. v. Environmental Tectonics Corp. Int’l, 493 U.S. 400 (1990).