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: Legal Theory BlogFinkelman on Foreign Law & American Constitutional Interpretation
By Lawrence Solum
Paul Finkelman (Albany Law School - Government Law Center) has posted Foreign Law and American Constitutional Interpretation: A Long and Venerable Tradition (NYU Annual Survey of American Law, Vol. 63, 2007-2008) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
This article offers a correction to the arguments of Justices Scalia and Thomas that the Supreme Court should not use foreign law (except perhaps in interpreting treaties), because it would violate the original intent of the Framers.
Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on December 26, 2008 (boomark / email).
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