Introduction- Twenty-Five Years of the Fordham International Law Journal

Fordham International Law Journal Volume 25, Issue 3 2001 Article 1 Introduction- Twenty-Five Years of the Fordham International Law Journal Joseph C. Sweeney∗ ∗ Copyright c 2001 by the authors. Fordham International Law Journal is produced by The Berke- ley Electronic Press (bepress). http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ilj Introduction- Twenty-Five Years of the Fordham International Law Journal Joseph C. Sweeney Abstract A review of the history of the Fordham ILJ. It is a partial reprint of an essay published in 20 FORDHAM INT’L L.J. 1 (1996). The essay attempts to brieﬂy summarize the purpose of the ILJ and past volumes. INTRODUCTION Joseph C Sweeney* T4ENTY-FIVE YEARS OF THE FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL The Fordham International Law Journal ("ILJ" or 'Jour- nal") began with eight students. We now have one hundred and six students involved annually in ILJ: fifteen editors, eight associate editors, and eighty-three staff members. We began with a budget of $400. Today our annual budget exceeds $75,000. Vol- ume 1 contained seventy-five pages; Volume 24 consisted of six books with 2,094 pages. Thus far, about 1,250 Fordham Law students have shared in the ILJ experience as staff members, and 248 of them have been elected to editorial positions. Together, they produce the best student-run international law journal in the world. Obviously an attempt to review these busy years may produce inadvertent omissions, for which I ask your forgiveness. The reason for the Journal's existence is to provide research and writing experience for students. I would be the last person to downgrade the importance of student notes and comments. Nevertheless, we have already published 283, and I shall not attempt the risky task of selecting the most significant among them. The simple message I wish to convey all present and past workers on the Journal is our intense pride in your achievements. We celebrate the vision, persistence, and endurance possessed by the eight students who produced the first volume of the Journal in 1977. An International Law Society, run by students, had been functioning since a Fordham team first entered the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in 1968. The Society held occasional luncheon programs with guest speakers discussing current problems in international law. Also, on the last day of classes, just before Christmas, the Society held the best Christmas Egg Nog Party in New York (examinations * Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law. This review of the history of the InternationalLaw Journal is a partial reprint of an essay published in 20 FORDFHAM INT'L L.J. 1 (1996). In particular, several numbers have been updated and descriptions of the past five volumes of the Journal have been added. 542 FORDHAMINTERNATIONALLAWJOURNAL [Vol. 25:541 were then held in January after the holiday vacation). 1 In 1975, examinations were moved into December and classes terminated at the end of November. Thus, in 1976 there were no longer enough students in the school to drink Christmas Egg Nog, al- though the Student Bar Association had awarded a considerable amount of money for the party. Serendipity reigned, however, and thanks to the vision of the first Board of Editors2 the un- spent Egg Nog fund would be used to print the first issue of the new Fordham International Law Forum. The editors' preface focused on "the changing nature of international law and the consequences of this change in the application of international law to concrete problems in inter-state relations." ' With publication achieved, the editors could ask for funding from the Dean's Annual Fund, essentially made up of the contri- butions of alumni and friends.4 Volume Two was devoted to international human rights, a principal goal of the Carter adminis- tration. The Volume dealt with human rights considerations in population control, the 1948 Genocide Convention, and the problems of Indo-Chinese Refugees in light of the collapse of the Republic of South Vietnam. The Board of Volume Two5 was assisted in the final preparation by the brilliantly successful Board of Volume Three6 which would produce two issues 1. The recipe involved cream, nutmeg, pre-packaged egg nog mix, and two bottles of rum to one bottle of brandy. As the evening advanced and the brandy ran out, bourbon and rye were substituted, to taste. The egg nog was always accompanied by cookies baked by those members of the Society who possessed that talent. 2. James P. Eyster '78, Editor-in-Chief; AlbertJ. Kostelny '79, Managing Editor and the following members of the Board of Editors: Peter L. De Stefano '77; the late Am- bassador Jean S. Gerard '77; Diana R. Lewis '78; Professor Marjorie A. Martin '78; Ed- mond L. Papantonio '79; and Stephen G. Wolfe '78. 3. 1 FORDHAM INT'L L. FORUM iii (1977). 4. In the 2000-01 year, alumni and friends of Fordham Law School contributed in gifts and pledges U.S.$11.2 million and U.S.$2.3 million for the annual fund which funds not only the Fordham International LawJournal, but also the Fordham Environ- mental Law Journal and the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Journal as well as student scholarships, faculty research assistants and initiatives in clinical education, career planning, and technical advances in the Library. 5. AlbertJ. Kostelny '79, Editor-in-Chief; Susan C. Eisenhauer '80, Managing Edi- tor; and Edmond L. Papantonio '79, Special Projects Editor. 6. Susan C. Eisenhauer '80, Editor-in-Chief, James T. Tynion III '81, Managing Editor; John D. Boykin '81, Research Editor; Michael P. Murphy '80, Articles Editor; William M. O'Connor '80, Articles and Commentary Editor; Kevin T. Hoffman '81, Business Editor; and David Vaida '81, Associate Editor. An eager group of 30 students made up the Staff of Volume 3, necessitating the development of a writing competition for new second-year students to be selected from the Forum, together with the begin- 2002] INTRODUCTION printed in standard law review format. Volume 3 witnessed the publication of our first professional piece, "Some Aspects of Abuse of Dominant Position in European Community Antitrust Law" byJohn Temple Lang,7 a great friend of the Journal and of the Fordham Corporate Law Institute. Nine student pieces were also published. Thereafter, the Journal could expect papers from speakers at the annual Fordham Corporate Law Institute proceedings,' and an editor of the Journal would be assigned to assist in the preparation of the annual volumes of the Fordham Corporate Law Institute under the direction of Professor Barry E. Hawk. It is not an exaggeration to note that the Journal is the preeminent scholarly publication on the European Union, here and in Europe. With the timely publication of the two issues of Volume 3, a Faculty Committee with Professor Helen Hadjiyannakis-Bender, Professor Constantine N. Katsoris, and Professor Ludwik A. Teclaff, reviewed the status, the performance, and the prospects of the Forum and recommended to the Faculty that the Forum be awarded 'Journal" status and a permanent place in the budget of Dean Joseph M. McLaughlin who was always very sup- portive of the newJournal. The Volume 3 editors were provided a home on the "garden" level (i.e. basement) of the Law School (shared with "The Advocate," the law school newspaper), de- scribed by those with claustrophobia as a large broom closet. The editors also obtained their first permanent office equipment thanks to the generosity of Professor Constantine N. Katsoris nings of a book of procedures for footnoting foreign materials and training new staff members. 7. John Temple Lang, B.A. (1957), LL.B (1958), both with first class honors; M.A. (1961) and LL.D. (1980) - Trinity College, Dublin; Barrister & Solicitor (Ireland). From 1974, service with the Commission of European Communities; from 1988, Direc- tor General of the Directorate General in Competition, EC, Brussels. His subsequent articles are: EC Competition Actions in Member States' Courts-Claimsfor Damages, Declara- tions, and Injunctionsfar Breach of Community Anti-trust Law, 7 FoROHAM INT'L L.J. 389 (1984); Selective Distribution,8 FoRDtwM INT'L L.J. 323 (1985); Article 5 of the EEC Treaty: The Emergence of ConstitutionalPrinciples in the Case Law of the Court ofjustice, 10 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 503 (1987); New Legal Effects Resulting from the Failure of States to Fulfill Obliga- tions under European Community Law, 16 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 1 (1992); Defining Legitimate Competition: Companies' Duties to Supply Competitors and Access to Essential Facilities, 18 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 437 (1994). 8. The Fordham Corporate Law Institute began in 1962 under the late Associate Dean Joseph R. Crowley, but was renewed and expanded by Professor Barry E. Hawk whose conferences on international antitrust law have become world famous since their reappearance in 1974. 544 FORDHAMINTERNATIONAL LAWJOURNAL [Vol. 25:541 (Gus). Journal status also involved course credit and scholarship compensation for the editors. The zeal and devotion of the Volume 4 editors,9 building on the work of their predecessors, caused the student body to choose the Fordham International Law Journal as the winner of the 1980 Keefe Award.' ° The editors obtained two important speeches for their volume: The Fordham Law School seventy- fifth anniversary dinner remarks of the United States Ambassa- dor to the United Nations, Donald F. McHenry," and the 1981 graduation address by Theodore C. Sorensen, Special Counsel to the late President Kennedy, entitled Law: The Most Powerful Alternative to War.12 Two members of the Fordham faculty published their critically timed analysis of the Algiers Accords that sought an end to the Iranian Hostage Crisis. 3 Gary McCor- mack's student Note, The Reinstated Steel Trigger Price Mechanism: Reinforced Barrier to Import Competition'4 received the Francis 0.

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