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The Iran-United States Claims Tribunal: The First Ten Years, 1981-1991. By Wayne Mapp. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii, 384. Index. $79.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

David J. Bederman
David J. Bederman*
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 403 - 405
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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References

1 See Aida B. Avanessian, Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in Action (1993); Rahmatullah Khan, The Iran-United. States Claims Tribunal: Controversies, Cases and Contribution (1990); John A. Westberg, International Transactions and Claims Involving Government Parties: Case Law of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal (1991).

2 See, e.g., Sedco, Inc. v. Iran Marine Industrial Co., 21 Iran-U.S. CI. Trib. Rep. 31, 46 (1989); CBS Inc. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 25 Iran-U.S. CI. Trib. Rep. 131, 142 (1990).

3 See Starrett Housing Corp. v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 16 Iran-U.S. CI. Trib. Rep. 112 (1987) (awarding recovery on the amounts due under the loans extended to the claimant's expropriated former subsidiary as part Of the property rights considered expropriated by Iran).

4 For a critique of this position, see Judge Khalilian's dissent in Sedco, 21 Iran-U.S. CI. Trib. Rep. at 67–68.

5 See Emmanuel Too v. Greater Modesto Ins. Assocs., 23 Iran-U.S. CI. Trib. Rep. 378, 385–86 (1989); Mohammad Moussavi v. United States of America, 8 Iran-U.S. CI. Trib. Rep. 24, 26–27 (1985).

6 See Stephen J. Toope, Mixed International Arbitration 265–319 (1990); David J. Bederman, The Glorious. Past and Uncertain Future of International Claims Tribunals, in International Courts for the Twenty-First Century 161, 176–79 (Mark W.Janised., 1992); David D. Caron, The Nature of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and the Evolving Structure of International Dispute Resolution, 84 AJIL 104, 131–37 (1990); David L.Jones, The Iran–United States Claims Tribunal: Private Rights and State Responsibility, 24 Va. J. Int'l L. 259 (1984).

7 In cases where Iran won awards directly from the United States or from American claimants (by way of counterclaim or setoff), Iran is obliged to seek enforcement of those awards under the New York Convention or comparable mechanisms. For some recent cases, see Iran Aircraft Industries v. Avco Corp., 980 F.2d 141 (2d Cir. 1992) (refusing to enforce a Tribunal award for Iran under New York Convention Article V(1)(b)); Ministry of Defense of Islamic Republic of Iran v. Gould, Inc., 969 F.2d 764 (9th Cir. 1992) (enforcement granted, save for reservation regarding specific performance). These cases were decided too late to be treated in Mapp's book.