"Partly laws common to all mankind" : foreign law in American courts /
Should judges in United States courts be permitted to cite foreign laws in their rulings? In this book Jeremy Waldron explores some ideas in jurisprudence and legal theory that could underlie the Supreme Court's occasional recourse to foreign law, especially in constitutional cases. He argues...
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New Haven :
Yale University,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- Simply the law
- The law of nations, ius gentium
- A body of legal principles
- Learning from other courts
- Treating like cases alike (in the world)
- Democratic and textualist objections
- Practical difficulties
- Legal civilizations