Book Reviews and Notices : Österreichische Zeitschrift Für Öffentliches Recht. Edited by L. ADAMO-VICH, R. KÖSTLER AND A. VERDROSS-DROSSBERG. (Wien: Springer Verlag. Neue Folge, Volume I, Nos. 1-2, 1946; No. 3, 1948.)
| DOI | 10.1177/106591294800100217 |
| Date | 01 June 1948 |
| Published date | 01 June 1948 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Österreichische
Zeitschrift
Für
Öffentliches
Recht.
Edited
by
L.
ADAMO-
VICH,
R.
KÖSTLER
AND
A.
VERDROSS-DROSSBERG.
(Wien:
Springer
Verlag.
Neue
Folge,
Volume
I,
Nos.
1-2,
1946;
No. 3,
1948.)
This
old
symbol
of
finest
Continental
scholarship
established
in
1914
by
Bernatzik,
Hussarek,
Lammasch
and
Menzel,
and
interrupted
during
the
&dquo;dynamic
era&dquo;
of
the
Nazi
regime,
has
celebrated
its
reappearance
in
1946,
hardly
more
than
a
year
after
the
Potsdam
Declaration
ended
officially
the
military
phase
of
the
Second
World
War
in
Europe.
The
wide
scope
of
subject
matters
dealt
with
by
this
professional
journal
and
the
unusually
high
standard
of
its
contributions
will
render
the
Osterreichische
Zeit-
schrift
Für
6flentliches
Recht
not
only
a
welcome
but
necessary
addition
to
the
shelves
of
University
libraries
and
students
of
jurisprudence.
F.B.S.
Basic
Constitutional
Cases.
BY
C.
GORDON
POST,
FRANCES
P.
DELANCY
AND
FREDRYC
R.
DARBY.
(New
York:
Oxford
University
Press.
1948.
Pp.
xiii,
312.
$2.50.)
Here
is
a
small
book
of
thirty-one
cases
decided
by
the
federal
Supreme
Court.
Like
Cushman’s
well-known
book,
it is
designed
to
accompany
the
standard
textbooks
on
American Government
and
its
arrangement
follows
closely
the
usual
order
of
topics
in
such
a
text.
Like
Cushman’s
book,
also,
each
case
is
preceded by
an
introduction
which
places
the
case
within
its
governmental
framework.
This
new
collection,
however,
differs
substantially
from
the
older
one
in
two
important
respects.
In
the
first
place,
the
notes
introducing
the
cases
are
expository
in
a
historical
sense-that
is,
they
are
more
concerned
with
the
state
of
congressional
legislation
than
they
are
with
the
stream
of
judicial
decisions.
In
the
second
place,
the
broad
ar-
rangement
of
topics
which
characterizes
the
Cushman
selection
is
replaced
by
a
narrower
and
sharper
division.
In
addition,
for
example,
to
the
chapter
containing
cases
on
interstate
commerce,
there
are
chapters
with
cases
on
agriculture,
government
and
labor,
and
social
security.
This
method
of
treatment
occasionally
throws
up
new
topics,
as
for
instance,
military
and
civilian
mobilization
in
wartime.
Included
in
the
book
is
the
text
of
the
federal
Constitution
and
a
list
of
all
the
nominees
to
the
Supreme
Court,
whether
or
not
they
were
appointed.
There
is
a
short
introduction
dealing
with
some
of
the
niceties
of
judicial
procedure.
The
introductory
notes
are
well
done
and
are
easily
within
the
range
of
the
average
student
in
courses
on
American
Government.
If
a
criticism
might
be
ventured,
it
is
that
they
do
not
always
sharpen
the
story
to
the
issue
with
which
the
Court
enters
the
scene.
The
jump
to
the
case
has
sometimes
to
be
made
in
the
dark.
P.
T.
FENN, JR.
Oberlin
College.
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