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Volume 5, Number 1 (1975)

Articles

Table of Contents
Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law

Editors’ Page
Editors

United States Obligations Under Status of Forces Agreements: A New Method of Extradition?
William J. Norton

The Death Penalty in Traditional China
Chin Kim and Theodore R. LeBlang

International Straits: The Right of Access
R. P. Cundick

Colloquium on Certain Legal Aspects of Inter-American Cooperation: Establishment of Mechanisms for the Settlement of Economic Disputes; Views in the Americas on Basic Questions Relating to the Law of the Sea
Gabriel M. Wilner, Michael A. Robison, Dr. Enrique E. Bledel, Dr. José J. Caicedo Perdomo, A. A. Fatuoros, Dale Furnish, David A. Gantz, Dr. F. V. García-Amador, Moorhead C. Kennedy, Dr. C. Luppinacci, Dr. Valerie T. McComie, Dr. Alfodo Molina Orantes, Francisco Orrego Vicuña, José Pagés, Seymour Rubin, and Dean Rusk

Masthead with Managing and Editorial Boards 1974-1975

Book Reviews

Book Review: International Protection of Human Rights. By Louis B. Sohn and Thomas Buergenthal. Indianapolis, Indiana. Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1973.
W. Paul Gormley

Book Review: The Birth of Nations. By Phillip C. Jessup. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1974.
Sandy McCormack

Notes

Panama: The Proposed Transfer of the Canal and Canal Zone by Treaty
Michael D. Simpson

The Convention on the Uniform Law of International Bills of Exchange and International Promissory Notes: A Comparison to the Uniform Commercial Code
Harold S. White

The Icelandic Fisheries Dispute: A Decision is Finally Rendered
Roger A. Briney

Recent Developments

Contracts - Arbitration Agreement - An Arbitration Agreement in an International Contract is to be Given Full Effect by Federal Courts Except Where Public Policy or Equity Dictate Otherwise
James D. Dunham and J. S. Schuster

Foreign Nation Judgments - If State Law Provides for the Enforceability of Foreign Judgments, The Judgment is Enforceable Without Determination of Whether the Arbitration Award on Which It is Based is Independently Enforceable Under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
John W. Kindt

Aviation Law - Insurance - Neither “War Risk” Nor Other Standard Terms Denoting Civil Disturbance Within the Exclusionary Clauses of All Risks Policies Encompass the Destruction of an Aircraft by Hijackers
Kathy D. Izell

Admiralty - Torts - In Noncollision Cases Contribution Will Lie Where no Countervailing Considerations Detract from the Maritime Rule Allowing Contribution Between Joint Tortfeasors
Richard H. Siegel and Stephen O. Spinks

Admiralty - Shipowners’ Limited Liability Act - A Shipowner Cannot Invoke the Act to Limit His Liability for Wreck Removal Expenses Since a Statutory Duty to Remove a Sunken Vessel Prevents Him from Being “Without Privity or Knowledge,” A Condition Precedent to the Invocation of the Act
Thomas C. Holcomb

Expropriation - Compensation - Agreement Reached Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of Peru on $76 Million as Compensation for Expropriated Properties of United States Nationals
William M. Phillippe

International Court of Justice - Jurisdiction - Resolutions to Expand the Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice and to Improve the Court’s Image as a Viable Alternative to Achieve Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
Terry K. Smith

Books Received