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Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact that the leading oil companies have had on international relations. It looks at the interplay between the oil companies and the governments of both the industrialised and oil-producing countries.

The opinion of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, delivered January 28, 1937, in the case of Attorney-General for Canada v. Attorney- General for Ontario,1 voids certain "new deal" measures 2 of the Dominion of Canada. This opinion is important not alone because it has given a harsh blow to social legislationin the Dominion, and because the judgment is a reminder of one of the last vestiges of Imperial authority over Canada, these aspectsof the judgment being internal to the British Commonwealth, but also important are the external aspects. These involve the power of Canada to give effect to treaty obligations assumed by the Dominion as a member of the international community.

In a recent editorial of one of the legal periodicals, the author quotes Alexander Hamilton's statement in the Federalist, that "it is essential to the idea of law that it be attended with a sanction, or in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience," and from this premise draws the following conclusion: "The law of nations, so-called, is a mere empty term or phrase, a high resounding name for something in and of itself vain and impotent."To most authorities and students of international law, the author's conclusion is somewhat astounding, but the fact that the statement could be made by a prominent legal editor, illustrates the extent of the present popular distrust of the science.

Ein seit langem ungelöstes Problem der EG ist eine allgemein akzeptierte Verteilung der Finanzierungslasten und Ausgaben auf die Mitgliedsstaaten. Dabei sind die Fragen nach den Grössenordnungen der Distributionswirkungen sowie nach einem normativen Rahmen immer wieder von aktuellem politischen Interesse. Die vorliegende Studie versucht nun, zum einen genauere und umfassendere empirische Ergebnisse als bisher zu liefern. Zum anderen werden diese Verteilungswirkungen anhand der für die Finanzwirtschaft der Gemeinschaft ableitbaren Zielsetzungen und postulierbaren normativen Masstäbe beurteilt und wird die Richtung möglicher Korrekturen aufgezeigt.