Full Description
International Law in the U.S. Legal System provides a wide-ranging overview of how international law intersects with the domestic legal system within the United States, and points out various unresolved issues and areas of controversy. Curtis Bradley covers all of the principal forms of international law: treaties, decisions and orders of international institutions, customary international law, and jus cogens norms. He also explores a number of issues that
are implicated by the intersection of U.S. law and international law, such as foreign sovereign immunity, international human rights litigation, war powers, extradition, and extraterritoriality. This book highlights recent decisions and events relating to the topic (including decisions and events arising out
of the war on terrorism), while also taking into account relevant historical materials, including materials relating to the U.S. Constitutional founding. Written by one of the most cited international law scholars in the United States, the book is a resource for lawyers, law students, legal scholars, and judges from around the world.
Contents
Preface ; 1. Courts and Foreign Affairs ; 2. Treaties ; 3. Executive Agreements ; 4. Decisions and Orders of International Institution ; 5. Customary International Law ; 6. Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Law ; 7. Alien Tort Statute Litigation ; 8. Sovereign and Official Immunity ; 9. Extradition and Other Means of Criminal Law Enforcement ; 10. War Powers and the War on Terrorism ; CONCLUSION ; TABLE OF CASES ; TABLE OF LEGISLATION ; INDEX
