Anxieties about International Law: <i>Law Debenture</i> v <i>Ukraine</i>
Journal: Modern Law Review
Year: 2024

The idea that international law is received into the common law to some greater or lesser extent persists in contemporary accounts of the English constitution. In The Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc v Ukraine , however, a majority of the Supreme Court held – in circumstances ripe for its reception – that international law had no place in the English common law of duress and contractual defences. This note explains why, after Law Debenture , international law's reception into English law seem