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20 Yale J. Int'l L. 1 (1995)
State Courts, Federal Courts, and International Cases

handle is hein.journals/yjil20 and id is 7 raw text is: State Courts, Federal Courts, and International Cases A.M. Weisburdt I. INTRODUCTION ........................................... 1 II. BASES OF THE FEDERALIZING APPROACH TO INTERNATIONAL CASES ............ 3 11. CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW AS FEDERAL COMMON LAW: THE DOCTRINE'S CONSEQUENCES AND THE STATES' REACTIONS ....................... 8 A. The Impact of Federalizing Customary International Law ............ 8 B. Customary International Law as Federal Common Law: Contrary Arguments, Inconsistent Cases ............................. 11 C. State Court Failures to Follow the Filartiga Line ................. 12 IV. CASES INVOLVING FOREIGN RELATIONS AS FEDERAL COMMON LAW: CASES AND ARGUMENTS PRO AND CON ................................... 15 A. Foreign Relations Cases as Federal Coimnon Law ............... 15 B. Arguments and Authority Inconsistent with a Broad Federal Common Law of Foreign Relations ................................... 19 V. JURISDICTIONAL AND RELATED PROBLEMS OF THE FEDERALIZING APPROACH TO CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW ............................... 28 A. Customary International Law as Federal Common Law: Analysis of Supporting Authority ................................... 28 1. Filartiga: Problems with Its Reading of the Case Law .......... 28 2. Filartiga and the Views of the Framers ................... 35 B. Customary International Law as Federal Common Law: Contrary Authority .......................................... 38 1. Pre-Erie Cases .................................. 38 2. The Effect of Erie and Subsequent Cases .................. 41 C. Customary International Law as Federal Comnmon Law and the Separation of Powers ......................................... 44 VI. RESOLVING JUDGE JESSUP'S DILEMMA ............................ 48 VII. THE LIMITS OF THE FEDERAL COMMON LAW OF FOREIGN RELATIONS ........ 56 VIII. CONCLUSION ............................................ 63 I. INTRODUCTION The world is growing more interdependent, with individual nations unable and indeed generally unwilling to avoid extensive contact with one another. America's expanding international contacts necessarily affect many social institutions, including the law. To meet the demands t Professor of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; J.D. 1976, University of Michigan; A.B. 1970, Princeton University. The author wishes to express his gratitude to the North Carolina Law Foundation for supporting this project.

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