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33 Geo. L. J. 373 (1944-1945)
International Trade Tribunal--A Step Forward Short of Surrender of Sovereignty

handle is hein.journals/glj33 and id is 383 raw text is: THE GEORGETOWN LAW JOURNAL VOLUME 33 MAY, 1945 NUMBER 4. AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRIBUNAL - A STEP FORWARD SHORT OF SURRENDER OF SOVEREIGNTY* SIGMUND TniBERGt I. M OST current proposals for international organization stress the need for international legislative assemblies, an international executive organ, and the surrender of some portion of national sovereign power to those bodies. This article concerns itself with the third element of the customary international trinity-an international judicial tribunal; with the pacificatory and justice-molding potentialities of such a body taken by itself; and with a consequent realistic application of the concept of national sovereignty. This limitation in approach is no wise to be taken as a disparagement of the world government, accom- panied by needful grants of sovereign authority, which it is hoped will eventually emerge to keep the international community at peace and in the ways of justice. It represents rather an effort to anticipate acri- monious disputes by encouraging the presentation and settlement of more mildly controversial ones, to forestall occasions for large scale military aggression by smoothing over prevenient minor economic and psychological irritations, and to test the feasibility of an international law that will inch its way as an accretion of small but continuous ver- dicts rather than attempt instantaneous coverage of a wider terrain in the form of large principles. In short, an institution that would preserve the peace must feature *This article was written while the author was on the staff of the Foreign Economic Administration. However, it is a personal expression of views and does not represent the viewpoint either of that agency or of the Department of Justice, with which the author is currently associated. IA. B., Columbia University (1930), A. M., id. (1930), LL. B., id. (1933); member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and of New York. Author: Admin- istrative Findings of Fact (1941-2) 27 WAsH. U: L. Q. 62, 169; Insurance and Interstate Commerce (1941) 50 YALE L. J. 959.

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