By Amy L Walker
BBA 3210 13M 1B15 S2 Business Law
Columbia Southern University
Dr. George Ackerman
Briefing Paper 1: Critical Legal Thinking
A state doctrine is “a doctrine which states that judges of one country cannot question the validity of an act committed by another country within that other country’s borders. It is based on the principle that a country has absolute authority over what transpires within its own territory” (Cheeseman, 2013). In the case of Glen v. Club Mediteranee, S.A. this means that because the incident of Cuba’s expropriating the Glen’s beachfront property to Club Mediteranee, S. A. to build their facility and then not paying the Glen’s for the property cannot