Book Review: International Shipping Cartels: A Study of Industrial Self-Regulation by Shipping Conferences
| Published date | 01 March 1954 |
| Date | 01 March 1954 |
| Author | V. W. Bladen |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070205400900122 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
BOOK
REVIEWS
71
A
MANUAL
OF
INTERNATIONAL
LAW.
By
George
Schwarzen-
berger.
1952.
(London: Stevens.
3rd
ed.
lii,
441pp.
$6.75)
This
manual
has
become
deservedly popular
and
gone
through
several
editions
in
a
few
years.
Its
characteristic
feature
is
a
fairly
short
and
general
though
lucidly
written
chapter
on
a
particular
topic of
international
law,
followed
by a
very
detailed
study
outline
as
well
as questions
for
the
use
of
lecturers
and
students.
The
manual
is
not suitable
for
more
elementary
courses
of
international
law
because
the
average
lecturer
would
require
a
rather
more
elaborate
text,
and
a
rather
less
elaborate
bibliography.
It
is,
however,
admirably suited
for
a
detailed
or
advanced
course
especially
as
it
is
now
supplemented
by
a
case
book,
edited by
L.
C.
Green.
It
should
also
be
observed
that
the
Manual
deliberately
abstains
from
the
discussion
of
the
more
controversial
and
fundamental
questions
with
which
the
author
has
dealt
in
other
works,
notably
in
his
Power
Politics.
School
of
Law,
University
of
Toronto
W.
FRIEDMANN
INTERNATIONAL
SHIPPING
CARTELS:
A
STUDY
OF
INDUSTRIAL SELF-
REGULATION
BY
SHIPPING
CONFERENCES.
By
Daniel Marx
Jr.
1953.
(Princeton:
Princeton
University
Press.
xiii,
3
23pp.
$6.00)
This
study
of
the
shipping
"conferences" provides
a
useful
factual
and
analytical background
against
which
the
proposal
for
another
international
body,
the
Intergovernmental
Maritime
Consultative Organization,
should
be
viewed.
This organization
would
have
no
authority
to
regulate
rates
but
only
to investigate
and
report.
Even
such
a
modest
proposal
has
met
much
opposi-
tion
and
will
probably
never
be
implemented.
(Canada
ratified
the
convention
as
early as
1948.)
The
International
Civil
Avia-
tion
Organization
has
now
had
several
years
of
existence
and
its
experience
might
be
expected
to
be
useful
in
evaluating
this
pro-
posal.
It
is
briefly
considered
here
(pp.
279-281),
but
is
largely
dismissed
because
of
the
special
characteristics
of
ocean
trans-
port,
especially
because
of
the
different
concepts
of
"freedom
of
the
seas"
and
"freedom
of
the
air."
After
a
brief
discussion
of
the
"basic
economic
factors,"
especially
the nature
of
costs
and
of
demand
in
the
industry,
and
of
the
"economic
and political
environment,"
Dr.
Marx reviews
the
"investigations
of
shipping
conferences."
In
chapter
four
the
reports
of
the
British
Royal
Commission
on
Shipping Rings
of
1909
and
of
the
Alexander
Committee
in
the
United
States
are
reviewed.
There
follow
chapters
on
the
work
of
the
Imperial
Shipping
Committee
and
on
the
relevant
actions of
the
British
To continue reading
Request your trial