Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Philip C. Jessup -- The sources of international law / Frederick Pollock -- The legal nature of international law / James B. Scott -- The relationship of private international law to public international law / John R. Stevenson -- International law and private rights / Frederick Sherwood Dunn -- The changing dimensions of international law / Wolfgang Friedmann -- On the vocation of the International Law Commission / Julius Stone -- Efforts to codify or restate the Law of Treaties / Oliver J. Lissitzyn -- The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea / Philip C. Jessup -- Recognition of governments / H. Lauterpacht -- The history of acts of state in English law / William S. Holdsworth -- The problem of sovereignty reconsidered / Hans J. Morgenthau -- The organization of the Permanent Court of International Justice / John Bassett Moore -- Membership in the United Nations / Hans Kelsen -- The relation of the European Coal and Steel Community Law to the law of the member states: a peculiar legal symbiosis / Gerhard Bebr.