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The June, 1967, Meeting of the Society’s Board of Review and Development: Identification of Problems for Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Richard W. Edwards Jr.
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The Board of Review and Development of the American Society of International Law met at Princeton, New Jersey, on June 2 and 3, 1967. This was the fifth meeting of this body since its establishment was authorized by the Executive Council of the Society in November, 1964. The Board devoted its June meeting primarily to discussion of interim reports of the panels working under the Board’s auspices. This note abstracts from the two days of deliberations various questions and problems in the sphere of international law that were identified as especially deserving of further analysis and research.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , January 1968 , pp. 127 - 142
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1968 

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1 The following members and guests attended the meeting on June 2-3, 1967: John R. Stevenson, Brunson MacChesney, James N. Hyde, William W. Bishop, Jr., and Stephen M. Schwebel (all ex officio members of the Board); Elting Arnold, Robert E. Asher, Jerome A. Cohen, Richard A. Falk, Wolfgang Friedmann, Richard N. Gardner, Joseph M. Goldsen, Fred C. Ikl6, Myres S. McDougal, Stanley D. Metzger, Stefan A. Riesenfeld, William D. Rogers, and Oscar Schachter (members of the Board) ; Oliver J. Lissitzyn, (elected to succeed Richard N. Gardner) ; and Richard W. Edwards, Jr., Robert Gilpin, John B. Howard, and Peter J. Liacouras. Previous meetings were held in March and October, 1965, June, 1966, and February, 1967. H. C. L. Merillat, “Board of Review and Development: a New Activity of the Society,” 59 A.J.I.L. 574 (1965), contains a general discussion of the Board and a report on its first meeting. See also the presidential addresses of Brunson MacChesney and John B. Stevenson to the annual meetings of the Society in 1966 and 1967, 1966 Proceedings, American Society of International Law 183; 1967 ibid. 228.

2 Regulations of the American Society of International Law, Section II.3.

3 H. C. L. Merillat, “Law and Developing Countries,” 60 A.J.I.L. 71 (1966); James N. Hyde, “Law and Developing Countries (continued),” 61 ibid. 571 (1967); Stanley D. Metzger, “Regulation of International Trade: Summary Report,” 60 ibid. 537 (1966); Robert L. Knauss, “Report on the Meeting of the Panel on Capital Formation,” 61 ibid. 1030 (1967). Abstracts of the civil war studies were discussed at the 1967 annual meeting of the Society, 1967 Proceedings, American Society of International Law 2 and 50. Papers of the Study Group on the International Law Commission's Draft Convention on the Law of Treaties were made available to teachers in the United States and to officials of the United States and other governments. A number of the ideas expressed by individual participants in the study groups have been elaborated in articles in the October, 1967, Law of Treaties symposium number of this JOUENAL, 61 A.J.I.L. 895 ff. (1967). See also 1967 Proceedings, American Society of International Law 186.

4 The words “propositional inventory” were introduced into the Board's discussions by Joseph M. Goldsen at an earlier meeting. The words have been frequently used at later meetings to describe the kind of analytical review of the existing literature that is needed in various fields. A “propositional inventory” is an integrated set of propositions or hypotheses suggested by a careful review of existing literature and research, together with comments on the existing literature and research that support or weigh against the stated proposition, and suggestions for research where the available work is unsatisfactory or is non-existent. An example is Leon Lipson and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Report to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on the Law of Outer Space (Chicago: American Bar Foundation, 1961).

5 See H. C. L. Merillat, “Law and Developing Countries,” 60 A.J.I.L. 71 (1966); James N. Hyde, “Law and Developing Countries (continued),” 61 ibid. 571 (1967); and H. C. L. Merillat and Richard W. Edwards, Jr., United States Law Schools and Latin America: Law and Development (Washington: American Society of International Law, 1966). A conference on “American Law Schools and Africa,” sponsored by the Society, was held at Lake Arrowhead, California, in June, 1967. “International Law and Developing Countries” was the theme of the Society's 1966 annual meeting. 1966 Proceedings, American Society of International Law.

6 See Weather and Climate Modification: Problems and Prospects (2 vols.; Washington: National Academy of Sciences, 1966); Weather and Climate Modification (Washington: National Science Foundation, 1966); Howard J. Taubenfeld, Weather Modification: Law, Controls, Operations (Washington: National Science Foundation, 1966); and Weather Modification and Control, S. Rep. No. 1139, 89th Cong., 2d Sess. (1966).

7 1t was suggested in connection with this question that the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in the dissemination of research in the agricultural field deserved study and that such study might provide insights into techniques that could be adapted to industrial research transfers.

8 See Stanley D. Metzger, ‘’ Regulation of International Trade: Summary Eeport,'' 60 A.J.I.L. 537 at 539 (1966).

9 See Raymond Vernon, ‘’ Multinational Enterprise and National Sovereignty,'' 45 Harvard Business Review 156 (March-April, 1967); and Carlos Fligler, Multinational Public Enterprises (Washington: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1967).