http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/international-law-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/international-law-roundup/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:13:07 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26443

More on John Fonte’s new book Sovereignty or Submission [FrontPage interview, W. James Antle III/Washington Times, Clifford May via Israpundit, earlier here and here] U.N. Human Rights Council finds much to criticize about U.S. rights record, including inadequate attention to rights of clean water and sanitation; State Department response to “universal periodic review”;

“The President Can’t Increase Congress’s Power Simply by Signing a Treaty” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato, on Supreme Court case of U.S. v. Bond]

Another “international norms vs. American sentencing practices” showdown headed to SCOTUS? [Hans Bader]

France, Turkey restrict talk of Armenian genocide in opposite ways, and both are wrong [Walter Russell Mead]

Transnational prosecutions on an inexorable upward arc? Depends on how you count them [Jeremy Rabkin, TAI]

International law pressed into use to remake family law and gender customs [Stephen Baskerville]

“Time to Fix the European Court of Human Rights?” [Julian Ku, Opinio Juris]

“We are fighting the caste system with capitalism”: open market in India helps Dalits [NY Times]

Tags: Europe, family law, France, India, international human rights, international law, Supreme Court, Turkey

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Tags: Batman, movies film and videos, trademarks, Turkey

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