SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Nonce in MU Mutme does not nanmrUy WC) The British Year Book of International Las', 1920-21. (H. Frowdo and Hodder and Stoughton. 15s. not.)—A committee of British students of international law, undeterred by the sceptics who regard such law as obsolete, have launched this new annual as a means of promoting fresh inquiry into their subject. Sir Erle Richards writes on "The British Prize Courts and the War." Sir Geoffrey Butler discusses " Sovereignty and the League of Nations," urging that national sovereignty in the best sense will be enlarged rather than restricted by the estab- lishment of world-peace. Mr. A. H. Charteris contributes an interesting paper on " The Legal Position of Merchantmen in Foreign Ports and National Waters," which, as he shows, is unsettled ; France regards French ships, wherever they may be, as being under French jurisdiction, with certain exceptions, whereas Great Britain and the United States hold that a mer- chantman in a foreign port is, as a rule, subject to the local jurisdiction. Colonel Bentwich gives an instructive account of the good work of the British courts set up in Palestine and administering Turkish law fairly for the first time.
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