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Constitutional Conundrums In Arbitration: Book Review Of Arbitration And The Constitution, S. I. Strong Oct 2013

Constitutional Conundrums In Arbitration: Book Review Of Arbitration And The Constitution, S. I. Strong

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The combination of arbitration and constitutional law is the topic of Professor Peter Rutledge's new book, and the focus of this review essay, which will consider, among other things, whether these two subjects are compatible.


Beyond The Self-Execution Analysis: Rationalizing Constitutional, Treaty And Statutory Interpretation In International Commercial Arbitration, S. I. Strong Jan 2013

Beyond The Self-Execution Analysis: Rationalizing Constitutional, Treaty And Statutory Interpretation In International Commercial Arbitration, S. I. Strong

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International commercial arbitration has long been considered one of the paradigmatic forms of private international law and has achieved a degree of legitimacy that is virtually unparalleled in the international realm. However, significant questions have recently begun to arise about the device’s public international attributes, stemming largely from a circuit split regarding the nature of the New York Convention, the leading treaty in the field, and Chapter 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act, which helps give effect to the Convention in the United States. Efforts have been made to place the debate about the New York Convention within the context …


Constitutional Borrowing As Jurisprudential And Political Doctrine In Shri Dk Basu V. State Of West Bengal, Sam F. Halabi Jan 2013

Constitutional Borrowing As Jurisprudential And Political Doctrine In Shri Dk Basu V. State Of West Bengal, Sam F. Halabi

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Under prevailing theories of comparative constitutional law, courts use foreign precedent in one of three ways: to identify “universal” principles of law applicable across jurisdictions; to sharpen understanding of domestic law through contrasting foreign judgments; and, in the case of legal systems with shared origins, to consider alternative jurisprudential paths. While the terminology differs, the concepts broadly hold across current theoretical treatments. Methodologically, these theories are built by analyzing certain foreign decisions, while scholars devote less effort in trying to test prevailing theories by applying theory to a court judgments outside those used to build their theories. In building a …