Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references.

"Commentaries on the treaty clauses of the Constitution; construction of treaties; extent of treaty-making power; conflict between treaties and acts of Congress, state constitutions and statutes; international extradition; acquisition of territory; ambassadors, consuls and foreign judgments; naturalization and expatriation; responsibility of government for mob violence, and claims against governments. With appendices containing regulations of Department of State relative to extradition of fugitives from justice, a list of the treaties in force, with the international conventions and acts to which the United States is a party, and a chronological list of treaties.

First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.