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The Due Process And Other Constitutional Rights Of Foreign States, Ingrid W. Brunk
The Due Process And Other Constitutional Rights Of Foreign States, Ingrid W. Brunk
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The rights offoreign states under the US. Constitution are becoming more important as the actions offoreign states andforeign state-owned enterprises expand in scope and the legislative protections to which they are entitled contract. Conventional wisdom and lower court cases hold that foreign states are outside our constitutional order and that they are protected neither by separation ofpowers nor by due process. As a matter ofpolicy, however, it makes little sense to afford litigation-related constitutional protections to foreign corporations and individuals but to deny categorically such protections to foreign states. Careful analysis shows that the conventional wisdom and lower court cases …
Still In Exile? The Current Status Of The Contract Clause, James W. Ely
Still In Exile? The Current Status Of The Contract Clause, James W. Ely
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The Contract Clause is no longer the subject of much judicial solicitude or academic interest.' Since the 1930s the once potent Contract Clause has been largely relegated to the outer reaches of constitutional law.2 This, of course, was not always the case. On the contrary, throughout the nineteenth century the Contract Clause was one of the most litigated provisions of the Constitution. In 1896, Justice George Shiras astutely commented: "No provision of the constitution of the United States has received more frequent consideration by this court than that which provides that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation …