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008 110920s2012 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2011039607
020 $a9780199837427 (hardback)
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050 00 $aKF4581$b.Y66 2012
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084 $aLAW000000$aLAW051000$aLAW018000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aYoo, John.
245 10 $aTaming globalization :$binternational law, the U. S. Constitution, and the new world order /$cJohn Yoo, Julian Ku.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press, USA,$c2012.
263 $a1201
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a"In 1997, a Mexican national named Josob Ernesto Medellin was sentenced to death for raping and murdering two teenage girls in Texas. In 2004, the International Court of Justice ruled that he was entitled to a new trial, since the arresting officers had not informed him of his right to seek assistance from the Mexican consulate prior to trial, as prescribed by a treaty ratified by Congress in 1963. In 2008, amid fierce controversy, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the international ruling had no weight. Medellin subsequently was executed. As John Yoo and Julian Ku show in Taming Globalization, the Medellin case only hints at the legal complications that will embroil American courts in the twenty-first century. Like Medellin, tens of millions of foreign citizens live in the United States; and like the International Court of Justice, dozens of international institutions cast a legal net across the globe, from border commissions to the World Trade Organization. Yoo and Ku argue that all this presents an unavoidable challenge to American constitutional law, particularly the separation of powers between the branches of federal government and between Washington and the states. To reconcile the demands of globalization with a traditional, formal constitutional structure, they write, we must re-conceptualize the Constitution, as Americans did in the early twentieth century, when faced with nationalization. They identify three "mediating devices" we must embrace: non-self-execution of treaties, recognition of the President's power to terminate international agreements and interpret international law, and a reliance on state implementation of international law and agreements. These devices will help us avoid constitutional difficulties while still gaining the benefits of international cooperation. Written by a leading advocate of executive power and a fellow Constitutional scholar, Taming Globalization promises to spark widespread debate"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Globalization and the Constitution -- Chapter 2: Globalization and Sovereignty -- Chapter 3: Globalization and Structure -- Chapter 4: Non-Self-Execution -- Chapter 5: Presidents and Customary International Law -- Chapter 6: Globalization and Constitutional Controversy -- Chapter 7: Foreign Law and the Constitution -- Conclusions.
650 0 $aInternational and municipal law$zUnited States.
650 0 $aConstitutional law$zUnited States.
650 0 $aGlobalization and law$zUnited States.
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650 7 $aLAW / International.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLAW / Constitutional.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aKu, Julian.