Introductory

Abstract

If it is true that the world has become smaller by the increasing intercourse between nations, it is also true that, contrary to what might have been expected, it has become more complicated. Numerous problems of a political, economic, and juridical character have sprung from the closer contact between citizens, corporations and governments of different countries, and have been added to those existing already in ages past. One of these problems, the systematical exploration of which has only been started since the beginning of this century, is that of the international liability of States for damages suffered in its territory by aliens.