The United States and the Warsaw Convention

Abstract

Problems in the area of public international law are like icebergs: the treaties and reports that emerge from conferences and committees are only a small part of the process, while the mass of preparations, wasted efforts, frustrations, and agonized compromises never comes to the surface. In discussing the story of such a problem - the United States's denunciation of and subsequent readherence to the Warsaw Convention - the authors, both participants in the events they describe, present a view below the waterline. They also explain, and defend, an extraordinary development in the law of accident compensation.