Virginia Law Review (Volume 7) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A Treatise On International Law, by Roland R. Foulke, Esq., of the Philadelphia Bar. (Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., vols. 2, pp. 694.) The world is confronted today with perhaps its greatest crisis in international relations, which within the life of the next generation must undergo complete revision, not only in respect of the nature and scope of the relationships themselves, but with regard to the fundamental principles of international law upon which they have been based. For the proper performance of this task it is essential that the builders of the new system have a scientific and philosophic acquaintance with the principles underlying the system to be revised. The present reviewer knows of no work on the subject from which the reader may derive so much enlightenment on the foundations and structure of modern international law as from that now under review. It is not easy reading: it was never intended to be. But the author's .analysis of his subject is scientifically clear, leading properly and easily to the selection and discussion of the great existing legal problems that so often perplex and bewilder the ordinary student of the subject, who is not well versed in diplomatic methods and the conduct of international relations. The statements of principles are concise and well reasoned and in many instances supported by an abundant wealth of illustration, such as would be possible only to a profound student of international law, life and conduct. The reviewer has also been particularly impressed with the earnest insistence of the author upon a strictly scientific and correct use of words in defining the powers and obligations of nations toward one another and the limitations upon them. For example, he objects to the use of the word "right" in such phrase...