Foreign law?
Subtitle: Congress v. the Supreme Court
By: Christopher Roberts
Series: Law and society : recent scholarship; Law and society (New York, N.Y.)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781593327491
Subjects: Political questions and judicial power; International and municipal law; Law; Foreign influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-260) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Referencing foreign law; title: Foreign law : a controversy among the justices; title: Foreign law : a controversy among members of Congress; title: Responses of elite audiences : the media, the legal profession, and the political parties; title: Is the controversy about foreign law uniquely American?; title: Why the justices respond to external audiences.