Book Review: International Law: Judicial Control of the European Communities
| Published date | 01 March 1964 |
| Date | 01 March 1964 |
| Author | Edward McWhinney |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070206401900113 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
88
INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
geo-political
pattern
of
the
world
is
based
esseentially
on
three
power-
cores:
the
United
States,
Maritime
Europe, and
the
U.S.S.RI
The
rest
consists
of
satelites
and
shatterbelts,
although
China
is
seen
as
another
emerging
core.
The
book
contains
an
appendix,
"International
Relations,
Concept
and
Application",
by
Andrew Gyorgy.
It
is
too
brief,
however,
and
does
about
as
much
as
a
"world
geography"
of
similar
length
would
as
an
appendix
to
a
study
on
political
theory.
One
might,
perhaps,
contend
that
the
whole
book
is too
brief.
Political
geography
is
a
developing
subject and
Cohen is
to
be
com-
mended
for
his
attempt
to
combine
both
topical
and
regional
approaches
in
the
same
presentation.
The
book is
considerably
easier
to
read
than
some
of
the
earlier
volumes on
political geography.
University
of
Toronto
D.
F.
PUTNAM
International
Law
JUD•,IAL
CONTROL
OF
THE
EUROPEAN
COMMUNITIES.
By
Gerhard
Bebr.
1962.
(New
York:
Frederick
A.
Praeger.
Toronto:
Burns
&
Mac-
Eachern.
xix,
268pp.
$11.50)
Dr.
Bebr
is
a
former
Czech
national
who
originally
came
to
the
United
States,
as
a
graduate
student
in
law, immediately
after
the
War,
and elected
to
remain
there
after
the
Communist take-over
in
his
home
country.
After
more
than
a
decade
of
study
and
teaching
in
the
United
States,
he
went to
Europe
and
joined
the
administrative
staff
of
the
European
Community.
The
present
book
(Dr. Bebr's first,
incidentally,
though drawing
on
very
many
articles
and
essays
published
by
him
on
earlier
occasions)
is
a
study
of
that
Court
of
Justice,
having
its
seat
in
Luxembourg,
which
was
set
up
to
exercise
various
controls
as
to
powers
and
practices
of
the
institutions
of
the three
special
political-economic
organisations
which,
in
effect,
constitute
the
European
Community
in
general-the
European
Coal
and
Steel
Community,
the
European
Economic
Community,
and
the
European
Atomic
Energy
Community
(Euratom).
Dr.
Bebr's
study
is
of
the
jurisdiction
and
practice
of
the
Court
of
Justice-of the
bases
of
jurisdiction;
of
the
persons
who
have
standing
to
sue
(above
all,
the
member-States
of
the
European
Community,
but under
certain
circumstances, also
private
individuals);
of
the
internal
organisation
of
the
court;
of
the
nature
and
effects
of
the court's
judgments.
It
must
be
said
that,
notwithstanding
Dr.
Bebr's
long
exposure
to
American
legal
thinking, this
is
a
study
essentially
in
the
Continental
legal
tradition.
It
stays very
close
to
the
positive
law
of
the
court's
statute
and rules, and tends
to
eschew
substantial
evaluations
of
the
court's
achievements
and
record-in
political,
or
at
least,
policy-oriented,
terms.
This
condition
may
somewhat
reduce
the
book's
appeal
to
the
general
reader,
though
no
doubt
making
it
more
useful
as
a
guide
to
lawyers
practising
before
the
court;
it
probably
stems
in
part
from
the
author's
deference to
his
own
official
position
within
the
European
Corn-
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