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Medellin v. Texas: ICJ decision creates an international obligation, but not domestic law

By John Dermody, Travis Hodgkins, and Nema Milaninia

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This morning?s decision in Medellin v. Texas is the culmination of a long line of cases, both at the ICJ and at the Supreme Court, that have attempted to determine the effect that an ICJ ruling has under U.S. domestic law. In the law review comment I am working on, I have approached this problem from the perspective of trying to doctrinally resolve the Medellin line of cases with the Supreme Court?s decision in Mitsubishi Motors v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, 473 U.S. 614 (1985). In Mitsubishi, the Court determined that parties to an international commercial contract that appointed a third-party arbitrator...

Full post as published by Transnational Law Blog on March 25, 2008 (boomark / email).

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