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Some Main Directions of International Law: A Canadian Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Maxwell Cohen
Maxwell Cohen*
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Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University
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Launchings are Fashionable in the space age. But to “launch” a Canadian Yearbook of International Law has nothing of the drama of a Canaveral countdown nor does it represent the combined technology of an era at its highest point of achievement. Yet it may be regarded as a desirable national effort to provide a forum for the data and the ideas of international law derived both from Canadian experience and from general theory and practice.

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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 1 , 1963 , pp. 15 - 39
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Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 1963

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2 The Japanese Annual of International Law published by The Japan Branch of The International Law Association.

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20 Convention of May 26, 1930, for the Protection, Preservation and Extension of the Sockeye Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser River system, Can. Treaty Series No. 1957/21.

21 Ibid.

22 Great Lakes Fisheries Convention September 10, 1954, Can. Treaty Series No. 1955/19.

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30a Legislation establishing a twelve mile zone for Canadian jurisdiction over coastal fishing was promised in the Speech from the Throne, May 16, 1963.

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43 For example, U.S.A. v. Bulgaria, I.C.J. Reports, i960, 146.

44 For a recent survey of the work of the International Law Commission, see Annual Report of the I.L.C., 1962.

45 See International Law, a textbook of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences (1959); 52 et seq., for example.

46 See U.N. Resolution 1803 (XVII) and debates in the Second Committee; U.N. Review, January 1963, 89.

47 Ibid.; also the discussion surrounding the Sabbatino case (1962), 307 F 2d 845 ; Lord McNair, “The Seizure of Properties and Enterprises in Indonesia” 1959), 6 Nederlands Tidjschrift Voor Internationaal Recht 218, 276; Gilmour, The Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Acquired Rights in the United States (M.C.L. thesis, McGill University, 1963).

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50 For example, Somaliland, where diplomatie relations with the U.K. were severed in March, 1963 because of the decision of the U.K. Government to retain for Kenya that part populated by Somali tribes.

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54 It will be interesting to see whether the proposed union between Egypt (U.A.R.), Syria, and Iraq includes the sharing of the oil resources of these states.

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60 The phrase “transnational” seems to have been given currency by Jessup, Philip G., Transnational Law (1956)Google Scholar, 1-2, and by Rabel, Ernst, Conflict of Laws (1945)Google Scholar, 38; see discussion about the term in Katz, Milton and Brewster, Kingman, International Transactions and Relations, Cases and Materials (1960)Google Scholar, Introduction.

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