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William H. Loyd. 59 Univ. of Pa. Law Review 454 (Apr.). See p. 291 supra. Australia. "The Legal interpretation of the Constitution of the Commonwealth." ByA. Berriedale Keith. 11 Journal of Comparative

International Law. ality. Legal Education.

See Extra-Territori

Legal Education. “A School of international Law." By W. R. Bisschop, LL.D. 11 Journal of Comparative Legislation, no. 24 n. s., p. 288 (Mar.).

Legislation, no. 24 n. s., p. 220 (Mar.).

First _part of a study of the distribution of powers in the Constitution, the purpose being to throw light on the issue presented by a funda mental difference of opinion between the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the Com monwealth High Court, regarding principles of interpretation.

See Direct Government, General Jurispru dence,

Legislative

Procedure,

The writer is an earnest advocate of inter national arbitration, which no longer is a mere dream, but "has become a fact," and it is

gratifying to see that he does not confuse it with international peace. The Hague Con ferences have been misnamed Peace Con ferences, "for strife will never be ended between

nations, and eternal peace there shall be only in death." The proposed school of international

Local Govern aw, he says, would be a natural corollary for the

ment, Recall of Judges. Hindu Law.

See Criminal Law, General

Jurisprudence. International Arbitration. Special Number. Editorial Review, v. 4, pp. 329-374 (Apr.). This issue contains a number of messages and short papers written on behalf of the cause of international peace and arbitration, by Henry

Van Dyke, President Taft, Ambassador Bryce,

Hague court, in the same way that the Inns of Court were the corollary of the King's Courts of Justice in England. Legal History. See Copyright, Criminal Law. Legislative Procedure. "Leadership in the House of Representatives." By Hon. George B. McClellan.

"It is

Scribner's, v. 49, p. 594 (May).

rfectly possible that the House may

Prof. Samuel T. Dutton, Theodore Marburg,

shift its eadershi

Henry C. Phillips, William L. Hull, James Brown

by depriving the peaker of the political powers now connected with the oﬂice. If the House shall so decree, the impartial presiding ofﬁcer, so much desired by many, may come to life, but the powers once centred in the Chair will naturally focus in the floor leader. Were the House to be led from the floor the same outcry that is made today against the Speaker would be raised against the tyrant at the head of rules or whatever chairmanship might carry the leadership, and were the leadership to be in commission, the steering committee would be abused with equal fervor. Those who object to any leadership whatever, and they are many, would only be satisﬁed under a condition of legislative lawlessness horrible of contemplation and impossible of realization."

Scott, John A. Stewart, Edwin Ginn, {,ames A.

Macdonald and Madeleine Black. resident Taft says: — "If now we can negotiate and put through a positive agreement with some great nation to abide by the adjudication of an international arbitral court in every issue which can not be set tled by negotiation, no matter what it in volves, whether honor, or territory, or money, we shall

have made a long step forward by demonstrating that it is possible for two nations at least to establish as between them the same system of due process of law that exists between individuals under a government." “The Hague Conferences." By James L. Tryon. 20 Yale Law Journal 470 (Apr.). “The Hague peace system in a word is now important. The Hague conventions represent previously accepted or now generally agreed upon rules of International Law. The central feature of these conventions is that relating to the Paciﬁc Settlement of International Disputes. By its terms, if war threatens, mediation, corn

missions of inquiry, or arbitration may be em ployed to prevent its occurrence. If war breaks out, mediation may stop it. But while it lasts its severities upon enemies and infringements upon neutrals are restricted. The fact that the Conferences have become periodic, that their

program will be more carefully arranged in the uture than in the past, and that their procedure will be elaborated indicates their probable development into a real Parliament of Nations. “A

Congress of Nations, when it comes,

should be competent to deal with the most serious questions that arise between states and with the International Court ought to be a strong safeguard of international peace." See Armaments, Legal Education.

from the Chair to the floor,

Local Government. "Self-Rule in the Cities." By James Schouler, LL.D. 20 Yale Law Journal 463 (Apr.).

"In short, our fundamental law in America does not guarantee to the peo le of political divisions in a state any implie right of local self- overnment to assert against the state itself. ‘We ave held,‘ observes the Court in one of our latest cases, ‘in common with all the courts of this country, that munici l corporations, in the absence of constitutional restrictions, are the creatures of the legislative will, and are subject to its control, the sole object being the common good, and that rests in legislative discretion. (Lutterlow v. Fayelteville, 149 N. C. 65 (1908-09) ) And, upon this fundamental

principle judges now rest, even when doubting, as they sometimes do, whether some of the experimental changes lately put in operation are likely to give to the local inhabitants a beneﬁcent and well-ordered government. (See per curiam. Graham v. Roberts, 200 Mass. 152.)"