The five different ways in which foreign or international law has a growing impact on my professional life lead to several more general observations.
Foreign laws and legal systems can be vastly different than our own.
This quickly leads us on to the issue of implementing foreign law.
It is possible and frequent to have a national court applying foreign law.
In addition, the Court held that the related laws were "substantive" so the foreign law would control.
What is so alarming about American judges' reading and citing foreign law?
Hard and unjust indeed, for men to draw Their native air, nor take a foreign law!
Foreign laws and legal systems can be vastly different than our own, as do criminal penalties.
What we don't do is impose and enforce foreign laws on the indigenous population.
Judge Roberts said he agreed that the citation of foreign law was "not a good approach."