Foreign seizures : Sabbatino and the act of state doctrine / by Eugene F. Mooney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooney, Eugene F., author.

Series:

University of Kentucky Study

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eminent domain (International law).

Act of state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

[Lexington, Kentucky] : University of Kentucky Press, 1967.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The United States Supreme Court framed a unique legal doctrine on foreign seizure of American-owned property in the case of Banco Nacional de Cuba v. Sabbatino in 1963. This ruling has far-reaching implications for international law, American foreign policy, and the role of the Court in both domestic and international arenas of power. Disagreeing with the Court's decisions, Eugene F. Mooney undertakes to place the Act of State Doctrine in its proper historical, jurisprudential, and political perspective.Mooney argues forcefully that the dogmatic application of the Act of State Doctrine is ind

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; INTRODUCTION; 1. GENESIS OF THE ACT OF STATE DOCTRINE; 2. SOUTH AMERICAN SEIZURES; The Sovereign Immunity Theme; The International Full Faith and Credit Theme; The Rule for Decision Theme; Overriding National Policy; 3. EUROPEAN SEIZURES; Communist Extraterritorial Confiscations; Early Soviet Seizures; Soviet Seizures since Diplomatic Recognition; West European-Nazi Seizures; The Nazi Seizures; The Bernstein Affair; 4. THE SABBATINO CASE; Precipitating Events; The Lower Court Decisions; The Supreme Court Decision; Justice White's Dissent

Analytical Comparison of the Majority Minority Opinions5. SABBATINO AFTERMATH; Constitutional Problems; Legislature versus Judiciary-the Hickenlooper Amendment; Congress' ""Foreign Affairs"" Power; Congress' Power over Federal Courts; Modes of International Claims Settlements; 6. A NEW JUDICIAL POLICY BASIS; American Foreign Policy; American Pattern of Private Foreign Investment; Stock and Flow; Direction; Redirection after Castro; CODA; APPENDIXES; I. A Bibliography of Scholarly Comment on the Act of State Doctrine, the Sabbatino Case, and the Hickenlooper Amendment

II. International Pattern of Application of the Act of State DoctrineTABLE OF CASES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [161]-164.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813163826

081316382X

OCLC:

900345241