Importing Foreign Law

Exposing Activist Judges, Restoring the Rule of Law

Definition: Unable to justify their conclusion with U.S. law, judges turn to international law to justify their preferred outcome.

Heritage Research on Rule of Law

The Constitution must trump racial politics 6/9/2009
Bad On Guns 6/4/2009
Not a Zero-Sum Game: Replacing Justice Souter Risks a More Activist Court 5/5/2009
Appealing to the Judge's Better Angels 2/19/2009

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The U.S. Should Not Join the International Criminal Court, by Brett D. Schaefer and Steven Groves

The idea of establishing an international court to prosecute serious international crimes--war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide--has long held a special place in the hearts of human rights activists and those hoping to hold perpetrators of terrible crimes to account. In 1998, that idea became reality when the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court wa...

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