{"title":"Congressional Control over Treaty Interpretation","authors":"Jamil N. Jaffer","doi":"10.2307/1600667","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"On September 8, 1951, the United States and 47 other Allied Powers signed the Multilateral Treaty of Peace with Japan (Japan-U.S. Peace Treaty).1 Article 14 of the treaty provides that the Allied nations will \"waive all ... claims of the Allied Powers and their nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan and its nationals in the course of the prosecution of the war.\"2 On March 22, 2001, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) introduced the Justice for United States Prisoners of War Act of 2001 (Justice for POWs Act).3 This legislation requires:","PeriodicalId":51436,"journal":{"name":"University of Chicago Law Review","volume":"1 1","pages":"1093-1117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9000,"publicationDate":"2003-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"University of Chicago Law Review","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/1600667","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"LAW","Score":null,"Total":0}
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On September 8, 1951, the United States and 47 other Allied Powers signed the Multilateral Treaty of Peace with Japan (Japan-U.S. Peace Treaty).1 Article 14 of the treaty provides that the Allied nations will "waive all ... claims of the Allied Powers and their nationals arising out of any actions taken by Japan and its nationals in the course of the prosecution of the war."2 On March 22, 2001, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) introduced the Justice for United States Prisoners of War Act of 2001 (Justice for POWs Act).3 This legislation requires:
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The University of Chicago Law Review is a quarterly journal of legal scholarship. Often cited in Supreme Court and other court opinions, as well as in other scholarly works, it is among the most influential journals in the field. Students have full responsibility for editing and publishing the Law Review; they also contribute original scholarship of their own. The Law Review"s editorial board selects all pieces for publication and, with the assistance of staff members, performs substantive and technical edits on each of these pieces prior to publication.