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Roy E. Thoman Law, Power, and the Sovereign State: the Evolution and Application of the Concept of Sovereignty, by Michael R. Fowler and Julie M. Bunck. University Park, Pennsylvania: the Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. Pp. 200. $13.95 (Softcover). 30 George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics 583 (1996-1997) Michael R. Fowler and Julie M. Bunck, both members of the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville, have made a significant contribution by producing an outstanding work on sovereignty, a key concept serving as the foundation for all international relations and international law. They were motivated to write the book, in... 1997  
Sandra Day O'Connor Lessons from the Third Sovereign: Indian Tribal Courts 33 Tulsa Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall, 1997) Today, in the United States, we have three types of sovereign entities--the Federal government, the States, and the Indian tribes. Each of the three sovereigns has its own judicial system, and each plays an important role in the administration of justice in this country. The part played by the tribal courts is expanding. As of 1992, there were... 1997 Yes
Sandra Day O'Connor Lessons from the Third Sovereign: Indian Tribal Courts 33 Tulsa Law Journal L.J. 1 (Fall, 1997) Today, in the United States, we have three types of sovereign entities--the Federal government, the States, and the Indian tribes. Each of the three sovereigns has its own judicial system, and each plays an important role in the administration of justice in this country. The part played by the tribal courts is expanding. As of 1992, there were... 1997 Yes
Stephen D. Easton Lessons Learned the Hard Way from O.j. and "The Dream Team" 32 Tulsa Law Journal 707 (Spring 1997) C'mon, admit it. You watched. At first, you did not want to have anything to do with it. It was beneath you. After all, stripped of its Super Bowl- like hype, you knew it was merely a run of the mill criminal trial. Thousands like it happen every day. You had too much dignity as a lawyer and a student of the law to have much interest in so... 1997  
by James R. Rasband New Jersey 1997-98 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 245 (12/30/1997) In this original action, New Jersey and New York each claim to be sovereign over approximately 24.5 landfilled acres of the 27.5-acre Ellis Island, gateway for nearly 12 million immigrants. Which State prevails turns largely on the meaning of an 1834 boundary agreement that placed Ellis Island on the New Jersey side of the line but allowed New York... 1997  
G. William Rice Of Cold Steel and Blueprints: Musings of an Old Country Lawyer on Crime, Jurisprudence, and the Tribal Attorney's Role in Developing Tribal Sovereignty 7-WTR Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 31 (Winter, 1997) Far best is he who knows all things himself; Good, he that hearkens when men counsel right; But he who neither knows, nor lays to heart Another's wisdom, is a useless wight. Three decades ago, a new generation of Indian lawyers began to emerge from the law schools of this country. This first generation of Indian lawyers has exerted a tremendous... 1997 Yes
Kelly S. Croman One Size Does Not Fit All: the Failure of Washington's Licensing Standards for Alcohol and Drug Treatment Programs and Facilities to Meet the Needs of Indians 72 Washington Law Review 129 (January, 1997) Abstract: It is well recognized that culturally and spiritually relevant alcohol and chemical dependency treatment programs are most successful. Washington's licensing standards for such programs and facilities, however, fail to address the cultural and spiritual needs of Indians who they serve. The State's current one-size-fits-all approach offers... 1997 Yes
Stephen D. Krasner Pervasive Not Perverse: Semi-sovereigns as the Global Norm 30 Cornell International Law Journal 651 (1997) The contemporary world is beset by conflicts and issues that seem to challenge the utility of sovereignty as conventionally understood. Ethnic groups slaughter each other in the former Yugoslavia and in parts of central Africa. Israelis and Palestinians make apparently incompatible and irreconcilable demands about the same territory. Growing... 1997  
Ronald Eagleye Johnny Practicing Tribal and Indian Law along Highway 50 5-JUN Nevada Lawyer 15 (June, 1997) Whether you drive the length of Highway 50 beginning from the east or west, you begin your journey in what was, until the 1980s for some tribes, land owned by three of the four Native American Nations that occupied what became Nevada before the coming of the white man: the Western Shoshone on the east, the Washoe on the west, and the Northern... 1997 Yes
Evan H. Caminker Printz, State Sovereignty, and the Limits of Formalism 1997 Supreme Court Review 199 (1997) The latest in the recent spate of Supreme Court decisions reshaping American federalism, Printz v United States embodies the Court's most emphatic acclamation of state sovereignty since the New Deal. The Court had previously declared in New York v United States that while Congress may preempt state regulation with federal regulation, and may... 1997  
Jack M. Sabatino Privatization and Punitives: Should Government Contractors Share the Sovereign's Immunities from Exemplary Damages? 58 Ohio State Law Journal 175 (1997) In June 1995, a riot erupted at a crowded immigration detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. The riot was sparked by the anger of more than 315 detainees who had endured months of deplorable conditions while confined there awaiting the outcome of their requests for political asylum. Among other things, the detainees allegedly had been... 1997  
L. Benjamin Ederington Property as a Natural Institution: the Separation of Property from Sovereignty in International Law 13 American University International Law Review 263 (1997) An independent individual, whether he been driven from his country, or has legally quitted it of his own accord, may settle in a country which he finds without an owner, and there possess an independent domain. Whoever would afterwards make himself master of the entire country, could not do it with justice without respecting the rights and... 1997  
Tara C. Stever Protecting Human Rights in the European Union: an Argument for Treaty Reform 20 Fordham International Law Journal 919 (March, 1997) Law is to do what blood and iron have for centuries failed to do. For only unity based on a freely-taken decision can be expected to last; unity founded on the fundamental values such as freedom and equality, and protected and translated into reality by law. As the European Community looks to the future and anticipates continued growth in... 1997  
Kathryn Sikkink Reconceptualizing Sovereignty in the Americas: Historical Precursors and Current Practices 19 Houston Journal of International Law 705 (Spring 1997) I. Introduction. 705 II. Historical Development of Sovereignty. 706 III. The Emergence of Human Rights Law. 708 IV. The Inter-American Tradition of Support for Human Rights and Democracy. 712 The Americas in the 1990s are witnessing a gradual, possibly irreversible, transformation of sovereignty on the issues of human rights and democracy. In this... 1997  
Commission on Gender , Commission on Race & Ethnicity Report of the Third Circuit Task Force on Equal Treatment in the Courts 42 Villanova Law Review 1355 (1997) Editor's Note: Our subscribers will note that citation and textual material contained within the Third Circuit Task Force Report on Equal Treatment in the Courts do not conform with The Blue Book: A Uniform System of Citation or the Villanova Law Review's usual stylistic form. As requested by the Task Force, the Law Review has followed the format... 1997  
John K. Setear Responses to Breach of a Treaty and Rationalist International Relations Theory: the Rules of Release and Remediation in the Law of Treaties and the Law of State Responsibility 83 Virginia Law Review Rev. 1 (February, 1997) A dozen nations sign and ratify a regional nuclear non-proliferation treaty in which they promise not to build or operate breeder-type reactors. Two years after the treaty enters into force, commercially available satellite imagery reveals that one of the signatories has begun construction of a containment vessel associated only with breeder... 1997  
Mike Perry Rights of Passage: Canadian Sovereignty and International Law in the Arctic 74 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 657 (Summer 1997) The ice is beginning to move under our feet . . . To be sure, the Arctic has not been immune to change in the past. But the rate of change today is new. And whether the issue is military, strategic, political, economic or environmental . . . new ways of thinking about the region are required. The Arctic is the world's most under-appreciated region.... 1997  
NORA V. DEMLEITNER Searching for a Solution: How to Punish, Restrain and Treat Sex Offenders 1997 Federal Sentencing Reporter 849850 (10/1/1997) Editor, FSR, and Associate Professor, St. Mary's University School of Law More than perhaps any other crime, sex offenses have caught the attention of American legislators, the media and the public. With accelerating speed, state legislatures and Congress in recent years have criminalized new sexually motivated behavior and passed legislation that... 1997  
Joseph A. Wilson Section 102 of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act: "Preserving" State Sovereignty 6 Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 401 (Winter 1997) The Uruguay round of negotiations was a comprehensive effort to reform the international trade system. To a large extent, these efforts were successful. Among the innovative provisions of the Uruguay Round were agreements on both Trade in Services and Intellectual Property. More importantly, these agreements were accompanied by the creation of a... 1997  
Wayne L. Baker Seminole Speaks to Sovereign Immunity and ex Parte Young 71 Saint John's Law Review 739 (Fall 1997) A sovereign is exempt from suit, not because of any formal conception or obsolete theory, but on the logical and practical ground that there can be no legal right as against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends. Justice Holmes' explication of sovereign immunity is straightforward and succinct within the narrow province of... 1997  
Eleas Horne Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida: the Eleventh Amendment Upholds State Sovereign Immunity in the Face of Congressional Abrogation to the Contrary 17 Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law 108 (1997) In Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (Seminole), the United States Supreme Court expanded the Eleventh Amendment by declaring that Congress does not have constitutional authority under the Indian Commerce Clause to abrogate a state's immunity from suit in federal court. Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), Congress provided a statutory... 1997 Yes
James E. Pfander Sovereign Immunity and the Right to Petition: Toward a First Amendment Right to Pursue Judicial Claims Against the Government 91 Northwestern University Law Review 899 (Spring 1997) Among the most remarkable and least understood provisions of the First Amendment, the Petition Clause guarantees the right of the people . . . to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. In this Article, I propose that we interpret the Petition Clause as a guaranteed right to pursue judicial remedies for unlawful government conduct.... 1997  
Catherine Adcock Admay Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties. By Nico Schrijver. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. Xxix, 452. 25 International Journal of Legal Information 238 (1997) The international law principle of permanent sovereignty over natural resources first emerged in modern international law in the 1950's. Debate about the content of this principle, its scope and legal significance has played out in one subfield of international law after the other, decade by decade. In the 60's and 70's permanent sovereignty... 1997  
Louis G. Leonard, III Sovereignty, Self-determination, and Environmental Justoce in the Mescalero Apache's Decision to Store Nuclear Waste 24 Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review 651 (1997) Throughout history, Americans have had an insatiable appetite for land. The desire for each individual to own a piece of the American dream has brought the dominant capitalist society of the United States into repeated conflict with the communal cultures of North America's indigenous peoples. Despite predating this capitalist culture in North... 1997  
James S. Robbins Sovereignty-building: the Case of Chechnya 21-FALL Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 17 (Summer/Fall, 1997) The purpose of this essay is to elucidate the concept of sovereignty-building, which, simply stated, is the process of becoming a state. It is distinguished from the more familiar concept of nation-building in that nation-building takes the state as a given and seeks ways of building civil society within it. Sovereignty-building begins with civil... 1997  
Brenda Jones Quick Special Treatment Is Fair Treatment for America's Indigenous Peoples 1997 Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University Law Review 783 (Fall, 1997) This essay is not written for Indian law scholars. It is written for the benefit of those who acquired their knowledge of Native Americans from John Wayne, the Lone Ranger and high school history books. C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 783 I. The Treaties. 785 A. Land Ownership. 786 B. Land and Rights Retained. 786 C. Government/Tribal... 1997  
Marc Vockell State Sovereign Immunity in State-court Admiralty Suits 75 Texas Law Review 631 (February, 1997) A small shipping company, X Shipping Lines, learns that one of its ships has been involved in an accident. The ship was transporting various products down a large river, across several states, toward international waters. While passing through State A, the ship was navigating under a state-owned drawbridge when the drawbridge malfunctioned. Some... 1997  
Laura M. Herpers State Sovereign Immunity: Myth or Reality after Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida? 46 Catholic University Law Review 1005 (Spring 1997) The Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution provides, The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State. The Amendment embodies the doctrine of... 1997 Yes
James T. O'Reilly Stop the World, We Want Our Own Labels: Treaties, State Voter Initiative Laws, and Federal Pre-emption 18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law 617 (Summer 1997) The conflict between federal government treaties and state voter initiative legislation, at first, seems to be an arcane scholarly curiosity, one that presents novel questions of competing sovereignty. Presently, the United States is rapidly moving toward greater adherence to global institutions' needs for predictable trade norms. Simultaneously,... 1997  
Julie A. Clement Strengthening Autonomy by Waiving Sovereign Immunity: Why Indian Tribes Should Be "Foreign" under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 14 Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 653 (Michaelmas Term, 1997) In 1831, Chief Justice John Marshall set the stage for a paradox that continues today. In a landmark decision, he categorized Indian tribes as domestic dependent nations, and the phrase has eluded definition ever since. Domestic dependent nation may be an oxymoron. Nation, at the very least, implies independence rather than dependence;... 1997 Yes
Robert B. Porter Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Government Reform: What Are the Issues? 7-WTR Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 72 (Winter, 1997) Throughout Indian country today, it seems that acrimony is the rule rather than the exception. Leadership challenges, membership disputes, constitutional crises, and often violence have afflicted both the largest and smallest Indian nations. While we know that there has always been some degree of internal turmoil, modern infighting seems... 1997 Yes
Robert B. Porter Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty Through Peacemaking: How the Anglo-american Legal Tradition Destroys Indigenous Societies 28 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 235 (Winter 1997) Three Killed in Gunbattle Triggered by Seneca Feud --Headline, The Buffalo News State Court jurisdiction over the type of internal dispute present here would set a dangerous precedent that could severely undermine the (Seneca) Nation's sovereignty, usurp the authority of the Nation's courts, and erode the power of the Nation's leaders to govern for... 1997 Yes
Bruce A. Peterson , Mark E. Van Der Weide Susceptible to Faulty Analysis: United States v. Gaubert and the Resurrection of Federal Sovereign Immunity 72 Notre Dame Law Review 447 (1997) Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect and that will be one step toward obtaining it. --Henry David Thoreau Concord Lyceum (February 1848) The king can do no wrong. That legal fiction, while perhaps equalled in transparency only by the jury will disregard that, nonetheless characterized a century and a half of... 1997  
Timothy S. Guenther Tax Treaties and Overrides: the Multiple-party Financing Dilemma 16 Virginia Tax Review 645 (Spring, 1997) C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 646 II. General Principles in Preventing Tax Avoidance 649 III. Legal History of I.R.C. § 7701(l) and Treas. Reg. § 1.881-3 652 IV. The Actual Provisions of Treas. Reg. § 1.881-3 660 V. Treaty Overrides and I.R.C. § 7701(l) and Treas. Reg. § 1.881-3 (1995) 664 A. Can an Administrative Agency Override Treaties?... 1997  
Elizabeth E. Ruddick The Continuing Constraint of Sovereignty: International Law, International Protection, and the Internally Displaced 77 Boston University Law Review 429 (April, 1997) One of the fundamental purposes of the United Nations (U.N.) is to promote and encourage respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, yet at the same time, its Charter prohibits it from interven[ing] in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any State. International human rights law exists in tension between... 1997  
Barbara Crutchfield George , Paul L. Frantz , Jutta Birmele The Dilemma of the European Union: Balancing the Power of the Supranational Eu Entity Against the Sovereignty of its Independent Member Nations 9 Pace International Law Review 111 (Summer 1997) The European Union (EU) has a legal and political structure unique in the world because it is composed of fifteen sovereign nations bound together by a series of treaties into a supranational entity. The EU can establish itself as a formidable global force, with its population of over 370 million people, if it is able to control the nationalistic... 1997  
Beth Ann Isenberg The Evolving Conflict Between Employment Discrimination Laws and Immunity under Title Vii of the Civil Rights Act and Article Viii of the Fcn Treaty Between the United States and Japan--the Papaila Case 60 Albany Law Review 1441 (1997) I. Introduction. 1442 II. The Influences of Culture on Employment Practices and Treaty Negotiations. 1446 III. The FCN Treaty and Foreign Investment in the U.S.. 1451 IV. The Intersection of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Article VIII of the FCN Treaty. 1453 V. The Evolution of Previous Case Law. 1456 A. Spiess v. C. Itoh & Co. (America).... 1997  
Jeffrey D. Kaiser The Future of Cable Regulation under the First Amendment: the Supreme Court's Treatment of Section 10(a) of the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 5 UCLA Entertainment Law Review 103 (Fall, 1997) The Supreme Court's plurality opinion in Denver Area Educational Telecommunications Consortium, Inc. v. FCC will likely change the way in which courts analyze speech restrictions on cable television for First Amendment purposes. The Denver plurality formulated and utilized an ad hoc standard to review the speech restrictions at issue. However, the... 1997  
John H. Jackson The Great 1994 Sovereignty Debate: United States Acceptance and Implementation of the Uruguay Round Results 36 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 157 (1997) Sovereignty, strictly, is the locus of ultimate legitimate authority in a political society, once the Prince or the Crown, later parliament or the people. Sovereignty, a conception deriving from the relations between a prince and his/her subjects, is not a necessary or appropriate external attribute for the abstraction we call a state . . . . For... 1997  
Lawrence Watters , Connie Dugger The Hunt for Gray Whales: the Dilemma Native American Treaty Rights and the International Moratorium on Whaling 22 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 319 (1997) Every generation receives a natural and cultural legacy in trust from its ancestors and holds it in trust for its descendants. Edith Brown Weiss More than anything else, whale hunting represents the spiritual and technological preparedness of the Makah people and the wealth of the culture. Makah Tribe I. Introduction. 320 II. The Nature of the... 1997 Yes
Hector Fix-Fierro , Sergio Lopez-Ayllon The Impact of Globalization on the Reform of the State and the Law in Latin America 19 Houston Journal of International Law 785 (Spring 1997) II. From the Nation-State to the World System III. Globalization and the Law IV. The Reform of Legal Institutions in the Globalized State: Two Paradigmatic Cases A. The Economic Liberalization and the Opening of the Legal System B. The Justice System 1. The Institutions of Justice for the Strengthening of Democracy and the Protection of Human... 1997  
Michael Stoffregen The Inferred Explicit Standard - Waiver of Sovereign Immunity via an Arbitration Clause 1997 Journal of Dispute Resolution 165 (1997) The judicially created doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity was recognized as part of the unique relationship between the United States and these domestic dependent sovereigns. As tribes and tribal organizations enter into more commercial transactions in an effort to promote their self-determination and economic development, they have used... 1997  
Howard R. Sklamberg The Meaning of "Advice and Consent": the Senate's Constitutional Role in Treatymaking 18 Michigan Journal of International Law 445 (Spring 1997) The President shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur. --Treaty Clause of the United States Constitution The advice and consent of the Senate are . . . coextensive with the power conferred on the President, which is to make treaties, and apply... 1997  
Bruce Zagaris, Jessica Resnick The Mexico-u.s. Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaty: Another Step Toward the Harmonization of International Law Enforcement 14 Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law L. 1 (Winter, 1997) I. L2-4INTRODUCTION 5 II. L2-4PRECURSORS TO THE MLAT 7 A. Historical Cooperation. 7 B. Informal Cooperation. 10 C. Cooperation on the Border. 11 III. L2-4THE 1989 MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE IN CRIMINAL MATTERS TREATY 18 A. Background to the Negotiation. 18 B. Ratification. 19 IV. L2-4SUBSTANTIVE PROVISIONS 25 A. Obligation to Provide Assistance. 25 B.... 1997  
Barbara A. Arnold The New Leviathan: Can the Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 Really Transfer Federal Power over Public Benefits to State Governments? 21 Maryland Journal of International Law and Trade 225 (Fall 1997) Americans have mythologized the United States as a nation of immigrants. Nonetheless, waves of nativism have periodically washed over the American ethos. The fundamental tension between these two philosophies has given our nation a sense of irony even in immigration's heyday, the turn of the 20th century. At that time, Emma Lazarus' famous poem,... 1997  
Barbara A. Arnold The New Leviathan: Can the Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 Really Transfer Federal Power over Public Benefits to State Governments? 21 Maryland Journal of International Law and Trade 225 (Fall 1997) Americans have mythologized the United States as a nation of immigrants. Nonetheless, waves of nativism have periodically washed over the American ethos. The fundamental tension between these two philosophies has given our nation a sense of irony even in immigration's heyday, the turn of the 20th century. At that time, Emma Lazarus' famous poem,... 1997  
Ellis Mishulovich The New World Order: Sovereignty, Human Rights and the Self-determination of Peoples. Edited by Mortimer Sellers, Oxford: Berg, 1996. Pp. Xii, 340. $19.95 (Paper). 33 Stanford Journal of International Law 416 (Summer 1997) From the detritus of the Cold War world have emerged several cliches, of which the term New World Order is among the most prominent. It is a cliche that echoes sinister of past attempts to impose a global political system. Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, two broad schools of thought have emerged regarding the coming world order. The first,... 1997  
Roy E. Thoman The New World Order: Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the Self-determination of Peoples 16 Wisconsin International Law Journal 271 (Winter, 1997) This book is the result of a Workshop on International Organization Studies, held in July 1994 at Brown University. It was sponsored by the Academic Council of the United Nations System and the American Society of International Law. The articles included in this volume deal with the triadic issues of sovereignty, human rights, and the... 1997  
Neil W. Netanel The next Round: the Impact of the Wipo Copyright Treaty on Trips Dispute Settlement 37 Virginia Journal of International Law 441 (Winter 1997) In December 1996, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) sponsored a diplomatic conference in Geneva with a principal objective of bringing world intellectual property law into the digital age. Professor Pamela Samuelson's contribution to this Symposium presents a riveting account of that conference, describing in rich detail how the... 1997  
Stuart Banner The Political Function of the Commons: Changing Conceptions of Property and Sovereignty in Missouri, 1750-1850 41 American Journal of Legal History 61 (January, 1997) The past thirty years have seen renewed attention to the commons. Once an actual place, where farmers farmed and animals grazed, the commons has become a metaphor for any resource used collectively by large numbers of people. In this metaphorical sense, the most basic normative question concerning the commonswhen should property rights be... 1997  
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