TY - JOUR
AU - Greig, D. W.
AB - REVIEWS OF BOOKS the glaring gap which the E.E.C. Treaty has left, the need to fill it in a variety of ways and the problematical character of anyone solution. But he also suggests that as a matter of substantive law, as the available practice proves, fundamental laws have only a 'very limited' function within the community. This is certainly so if one looks primarily at the fundamental laws protected by the European Convention. But there are many other principles which in one form or another are considered fundamental laws in some member States. One thinks of the principle of the rule of law, the prohibition of arbitrariness or the principle of proportionality. One of the sources which according to Judge Pescatore should be resorted to is comparative law. But it will not be easy to find a common denominator and the practice of the Court does not give much encouragement, since it does not reflect the underlying reasons of the decisions The Court, unfortunately, retains for its judgments the French style: it commands, but does not attempt to persuade or to prove. In other words the Court does not provide any evidence that comparative law has the slightest influence 
TI - The International Law of the Ocean Development: Basic Documents. By Shigeru Oda. Leyden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1977. Two binders. Dfl. 260
JF - The British Yearbook of International Law
DO - 10.1093/bybil/49.1.247-a
DA - 1979-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-international-law-of-the-ocean-development-basic-documents-by-dIA3nNwcX4
SP - 247
EP - 248
VL - 49
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -