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In this essay, based on opening remarks at a symposium on the use of foreign law in American court decisions, Professor Bonventre notes that the practice of considering extra-national law is as old as antiquity. He recalls, for example, that in…

This article traces the independent state-law based protection of individual rights and liberties by the New York Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, since its earliest years in the mid-nineteenth century. The practice of developing a body…