foreign law

Perhaps unintentionally, the written followup questions from Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor make a strong case that consideration of foreign law in the debate over the Second Amendment would doom Republican efforts to read a “fundamental right” to gun ownership into the Constitution.
As Sessions pointed out in his question:
Many countries [...]

Here’s an interesting discovery by Rick Pildes, law professor at New York University, posted on Balkinization.
Turns out Justice O’Connor wrote an opinion in 1998, joined by her conservative colleagues William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, that cited as persuasive an aspect of foreign law, notwithstanding Republicans’ strong objections to the idea that foreign law [...]

Confirmation hearings covered Supreme Court nominee’s thoughts on foreign and international law.