Stefan A. Riesenfeld

The Influence of German Legal Theory on American Law: The Heritage of Savigny and His Disciples

The celebrations in Berlin commemorating the 75th anniversary of its founding have induced the Law School of the University of California to celebrate the establishment of the Law Faculty of the University of Berlin in 1810. We felt it was appropriate to pay tribute to the distinguished members of that group and to the impact of their work on legal thought beyond the confines of Prussia and Germany and in particular on that in the United States.

Antitrust Laws in the European Economic Community

THE SPECTACULAR development of the European Common Market and its emergence as an integrated economic mechanism, shaped in large measure by the forces of competition, has placed new importance on legislation and institutional apparatus designed to protect the competitive processes against restraints and other measures or formations that trammel their effectiveness. Undoubtedly, the pivotal role in the picture is played today by the pertinent provisions of th(Treaty Establishing the European Economic Community,1 especially articles 85-89,2 and the recent first regulations for the application thereof. These regulations were issued on February 6, 1962,a in the wake of the momentous decision by the Council of January 14, 1962,4 to the effect that the second stage of the evolution of

Digest of Foreign Law Cases

In Koufopantelis v. Cia. de Nav. San George, S. A., 194 F.Supp. 956 (S.D.N.Y., 1960) the court held that it had jurisdiction to grant default judgments in libels filed by a number of alien seamen for recovery of overtime wages pursuant to the laws of Panama, liquidated damages under 46 U.S.C.A. ?? 596 & 597 for withheld wages, penalties under the laws of Panama because of the change of the country of registration and damages for breach of the vessels articles. The court relied on Monteiro v. Sociedad Maritima San Nicolas, S. A., 280 F.2d 568, discussed in the Digest, 9 Am. J. Comp. L. 715. In Karvouniaris v. The S.S. Marietta, 196 F.Supp. 276 (E.D. Va., 1961) a seaman, whose tubercular condition had been reactivated on a voyage and who had been released in Shanghai and repatriated by air to Hamburg, sued for unpaid wages beyond the date of repatriation under Art. 134 of the British Merchant Shipping Act. This article provides that in case of wrongful act or default the wages continue to run until final settlement. The court held that under the cir-