Republicans will insist on the appointment of constitutionalist judges, men and women who will not distort our founding documents to deny the people's right to self-government, sanction federal powers that violate our liberties, or inject foreign law into American jurisprudence.
The Public Policy Papers include important collections representing individuals and organizations in the areas of 20th-century American foreign policy, jurisprudence, journalism, public policy formation, and international development.
This contact is often invoked to explain why Justice Kennedy occasionally cites foreign law (a taboo for Justice Scalia) and why his jurisprudence has been relatively liberal on such matters as gay rights and Guantánamo.
My paper critiques the Supreme Court's recent extraterritoriality jurisprudence as producing absurd results: the dismissal of cases where factual connections to the United States are overwhelming and there is no risk of conflict with foreign law.
It is well known that the courts of chancery in England were formerly entirely in the hands of ecclesiastics, who took advantage of the strict forms of the common law, to introduce a foreign mode of jurisprudence under the specious name of Equity.
The brief was innovative for its in-depth discussion of foreign national court jurisprudence and helps establish the relevance of international refugee law principles in U.S. courts.
Unfortunately, O'Connor's time limitation, completely foreign to constitutional jurisprudence and built on a suspect scaffolding of wishful thinking, made clear that Brown's legacy was in serious jeopardy.
Marshaling the jurisprudence of foreign national courts and commentary from international human rights bodies, the brief argued that overbroad application of the national security bar was contrary to the purpose of international refugee protection and put the U.S. out of step with international practice.
Housed within the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, the Public Policy Papers include over 250 collections documenting individuals and organizations that played a significant role in the areas of 20th-century American foreign policy (especially the Cold War), politics, jurisprudence, and public policy formation, as well as international development.
At Touro Law School in Huntington, he worked with law instructors to develop a course for foreign students in a masters degree program who wanted training in American jurisprudence.
