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30 Tex. Int'l L. J. 429 (1995)
The Operation of Foreign Public Law

handle is hein.journals/tilj30 and id is 439 raw text is: ARTICLES
The Operation of Foreign Public Law
HANS W. BAADEt
SUMMARY
I.  INTRODUCTION  .............................................. 431

II. DEFINITIONS AND HISTORICAL EVOLUTION ........
A.  Roman  Law  .........................
1.  The  Classics  ......................
2.  The Second Life . ................
B. Public Law as a Distinct Subject ..........
1. Emancipation and Consolidation  ........
2.  Politization .   ...................
3. Critical Voices and Doctrinal Objections...
C.  Consequences  .......................
1.  Public Law  as Politics . ............

2. Bias Against Foreign Public Law

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Nonenforcement of Foreign Penal and Revenue Law .
Joseph Story and the Penalization of the Slave Trade ...
Nonadjudication of Foreign Acts of Sovereignty ....
Sovereign Immunity  .........................

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III. THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK ................
A.  Territorial Sovereignty  ...........................
1.  Basic  Notions  ...............................
2. Exclusive, Undelegated Territorial Authority ..........
3. Exclusive Applicability of Domestic
Constitutional and Administrative Law  ............
4. Territoriality of Criminal Law and
Prescriptive  Penal Jurisdiction  ................
B.  International Law  Constraints  ......................
1. Illegal Occupation or Annexation of Territory .........
2. Extraterritorial Regulation of Conduct ............
3. Legislation in Violation of International Law .......
4.  Human Rights Violations  .......................
C. International Law Commands and Directives ............
1.  Exchange Contracts  ...........................

Soft International Law and Codes of Conduct ......
Strata of Public Law  .........................
Sequence of Analysis  .........................

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t Hugh Lamar Stone Chair in Civil Law, The University of Texas School of Law.

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