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Updated 8.5.2020

"The rule of law and foreign law in our Supreme Court"

Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at the New York University School of Law explores the Bill of Rights in the context of the international movement to secure universal human rights...

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Jeremy Waldron, University Professor at the New York University School of Law explores the Bill of Rights in the context of the international movement to secure universal human rights through the actions of individual countries, and suggests that doing so helps Americans see themselves as others see them.

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Published in the print edition of the issue, in the section, under the headline, “"The rule of law and foreign law in our Supreme Court" ”.

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