FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 245 



MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3, 191610 O'CLOCK. 

 Second Session of the Subsection on Public Law. 



SHOREHAM HOTEL. 



SIMEON E. BALDWIN, Chairman. 



Public Law as Affecting Legal Procedure in Civil Causes. 



WILLIAM W. SMITHERS, formerly Secretary of the Bureau of Com- 

 parative Law of the American Bar Association. 



The Effect on American Public Law of our Written Constitutions. 



(a) In Their Bearing on the Sovereignty of the State. 



Luciuus A. EMERY, formerly Chief Justice of Maine. 



(b) Constitutional Provisions Making Treaties Law. 



GEORGE D. WATROUS, Professor in Yale University. 



Papers submitted by : 

 Jos MAZA, Chile. 

 REYNALDO PORCHAT, Brazil. 



MONDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 3, 19162 O'CLOCK. 

 Third Session of the Subsection on Public|Law. 



SHOREHAM HOTEL. 



SIMEON E. BALDWIN, Chairman. 



Is There an American Public Law that Can be Differentiated from That 



of Other Continents ? 

 ROBERT LUDLOW FOWLER, Surrogate of New York, N. Y. 



Presidential and Parliamentary Government on the American Continent 

 in State and Nation. (This topic is suggested particularly to 

 open discussion as to the means for preventing any lack of due 

 cooperation between these two branches, including the admission 

 of cabinet ministers to a voice in debate.) 



RAFAEL MARIA ANGULO, of the Bar of Cuba. 



THOMAS I. PARKINSON, of Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 



FERNANDO SANCHEZ DE FUENTES, of the Law School of Habana, 

 Cuba. 



Papers reported: 



The Power of the President to Dictate By-LawsJand Regulations. 



Moists VARGAS, Professor of Administrative Law|in the University 

 of Chile. 



