S. Sidney Ulmer

Book Reviews : Law Without Sanctions: Order in Primitive Societies and the World Community. By MICHAEL BARKUN. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968. Pp. vii, 179.

western world, this has been interpreted to require the existence of a sovereign state and all that that implies about the power of the state to command and to exact obedience to its &dquo;lawful&dquo; commands. Obviously men can organize themselves into a body and live according to the precepts of Austinian theory. Just as clearly, this is not the only possible mode or fashion in which man may live in society. As John Chipman Gray pointed out as early as 1909, a &dquo;horde of savages who are in the habit of wandering about together, without king or judge, may be composed of true organisms, families, each with its ruler (alike legislator and judge) and Law.&dquo; (The Nature and Sources of the Law. Boston: Beacon Press, 1962 edition, p. 126.) Such a horde is composed of family units, not individuals, and the relationship between these units, according to Gray, is very similar to the relationship between nations in an unorganized world community. E. Adamson Hoebel has written that &dquo;International law, so called, is but primitive law on a world

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to acquaint students with the aims, materials, and methods of disciplines other than the one they have been best trained for by their undergraduate work.&dquo; If the reviewer had to recommend one book to a student desiring to acquire a well-balanced basic understanding of present-day Japan, it would be this volume without second thought. The attainment of the second goal has long been the relatively unsolved problem inherent in area studies. The interdisciplinary course in American edu-

Book Reviews : The Accidental Century. By MICHAEL HARRINGTON. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965. Pp. 322.

to it, he says much in few words. In so doing he provides us with a meaty little volume with doubtless appeal to scholars harried by the pressures of time in contemporary academic life. The lectures are limited to a discussion of procedural guarantees in the field of criminal law. Their general theme is that a number of important provisions in the federal Constitution were derived in large part from English common law and have been significantly expanded through common law development in America. The author’s analysis covers such specific topics as right to counsel, jury trial, rights of witnesses in criminal proceedings, and search and seizure.