International transactions and relations

This book has grown out of the authors' work in and hopes for International Legal Studies. The immediate context of this work and hope is the post-war program in this field at the Harvard Law School. The book owes much to association with our many colleagues in that program, particularly David F. Cavers and Richard R. Baxter, John P. Dawson, Roger Fisher, Louis B. Sohn, Stanley S. Surrey, Donald T. Trautman and Arthur T. von Mehren. We wish especially to mention two activities in which the authors have severally par ticipated and which have stimulated some of the thoughts and mate rials found herein. One is the research which has been pursued by Professors Sohn and Baxter on the Responsibility of States for Injuries to Aliens. The other is the work of Professor Surrey in the International Tax field and as collaborator in the course on Legal Problems of Doing Business Abroad.

The work on the book was greatly facilitated by the fortunate availability of assistance from students, candidates for the LL.B. or the advanced degrees, from other countries as well as the United States. We are especially indebted to Joseph E. Leininger, who was our principal research assistant during his last two years at the Harvard Law School and the intervening summer. Jacques-Yvan Morin, now a member of the law faculty of the University of Montreal, and Ricardo Crespo, of Ecuador, culled much of the primary foreign materials from reports and digests. Milton Bordwin did much of the early exploratory research and later contributed to the research and editorial preparation of parts of the preliminary edition of the book. Edward J. Grenier, Jr., provided research and editorial as sistance in connection with some of the chapters in Part II. Peter J. Belton aided by his research in, and precise translation of, French materials. Frederick S. Hird and Michael Malina undertook the job of checking the citations for accuracy and form, and assisted in cor rection of proof.