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89 Minn. L. Rev. 652 (2004-2005)
Generic Constitutional Law

handle is hein.journals/mnlr89 and id is 668 raw text is: Article Generic Constitutional Law David S. Lawt Introduction .............................................................................. 653 I. Generic Constitutional Theory ....................................... 662 A. The Ubiquity of the Countermajoritarian Dilemma ................................ 662 B. Two Approaches to the Definition and Justification of Judicial Power ................................ 669 C. The Indeterminacy of the Hierarchy of Laws ......... 673 D. The Supposed Requirements of Judicial Legitim acy .................................................. 679 II. Generic Constitutional Analysis .................................... 687 III. Generic Constitutional Doctrine .................................... 699 A. The Varying Uses of Foreign Doctrine .................... 699 B. Judicial Communication + Ad Hoc Borrowing = G lobal L aw ? .............................................................. 701 C. Generic Text, Generic Doctrine ............................... 704 D. Generic Concerns, Generic Doctrine ....................... 705 E. The Influence of Legal Scholarship ......................... 707 F. The Homogenizing Tendencies of Federal and Supranational Structures ........................................ 710 G. Reciprocal Influence and Doctrinal Recursion ....... 718 H. Generic Doctrine as a Remedy for Lateral Judicial Conflict ....................................................... 722 t Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego; Assistant Ad- junct Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. This material is based upon work supported under a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recom- mendations expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For their suggestions, questions, and encouragement, I am indebted to David Brady, Gerhard Casper, John Ferejohn, Tom Grey, Russell Hardin, Simon Jackman, Heidi Kitrosser, Mike Ramsey, Scott Selby, and I-Wei Wang. They, too, are not to blame for what follows.

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