VII. Allocation of Legal Authority Among States

Restatement, PArt IV - Introductory Note

A. Jurisdiction to Prescribe Relief

I.A. Shearer, Starke's International Law

Restatement Section 402

Notes and Questions

1. Territory

Restatement Section 403, Comment

Hartford Fire Insurance Co. v. California

Notes and Questions

2. Nationality

Andreas F. Lowenfeld, Trade Controls for Political Ends

Barry E. Carter, International Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard Legal Regime

European Communities Comments on the U.S. Regulations Concerning Trade with the U.S.S.R.

The Netherlands: District Court at the Hague Judgment in Compagnie des Petroles S.A. v. Sensor Nederiand B.V.

Andreas F. Lowenfeld, Congress and Cuba: The Helms-Burton Act

Brice M. Clagett, Title III of the Helms-Burton Act is Consistent with International Law

Notes and Questions

3. Protective Principle

Restatement Section 402(3), Comment

United States v. Romero-Galue

Notes and Questions

4. Passive Personality

Restatement Section 402, Comment

United States v. Columba-Collela

Notes and Questions

5. Universal Jurisdiction

Restatement Section 404, Comment

Curtis A. Bradley, Universal Jurisdiction and U.S. Law

United States v. Usama Bin Laden

Notes and Questions

B. Jurisdiction to Enforce and Adjudicate Public Law

1. Jurisdiction to Enforce

Restatement 431-432 & Comments; Section 433

a. Direct Enforcement

United States v. Alvarez-Machain

Notes and Questions

b. Extradition

Questions

2. Jurisdiction to Adjudicate

Restatement Section 421

Notes and Questions

Restatement Part IV Chapter 2, Introductory Note

C. Choice of Law in Private Disputes

William M. Richman & William L. Reynolds, Understanding Conflict of Laws

Pancotto v. Sociedade de Safaris de Mozambique, S.A.R.I.

Notes and Questions

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