Book Review by Shael Herman
Start with a flight of fancy. Imagine a time line stretching back to 1492 and forward to the year 2000. Christopher Columbus, returned from the world of the shades, perches on this time line at the year 1990 and surveys the march of history since his voyage to the New World. European by birth and American by association, Columbus is astonished by the transformation of a vast wilderness into the Americas.
Predictably, Columbus is shocked by the carnage of World War II. In the post-war aftermath, however, the nations of Western Europe, assisted by the United States, rebuild themselves from the rubble. By the 1950s, these nations, having discovered that cooperation is better than antagonism, begin to unite economically as the European Economic Community, which consists today of twelve countries with a total population in excess of 250,000,000. By 1992, these people, by virtue of a unification act, are to be living for the first time in a unified market without internal trade barriers.
About the Author
Shael Herman. Adjunct Professor of Law, Tulane University. B.A. 1964, M.A. 1965, J.D. 1969, Tulane University.
Citation
64 Tul. L. Rev. 1749 (1990)