Globalizing Justice
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Donald W. Jackson is Herman Brown Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University and the author of Even the Children of Strangers: Equality under the U.S. Constitution. Michael C. Tolley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and the coauthor (with Christopher J. Bosso and John H. Portz) of American Government: Conflict, Compromise, and Citizenship. Mary L. Volcansek is Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University and the author of Constitutional Politics in Italy: The Constitutional Court.
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Donald W. Jackson is Herman Brown Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University and the author of Even the Children of Strangers: Equality under the U.S. Constitution. Michael C. Tolley is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University and the coauthor (with Christopher J. Bosso and John H. Portz) of American Government: Conflict, Compromise, and Citizenship. Mary L. Volcansek is Professor of Political Science at Texas Christian University and the author of Constitutional Politics in Italy: The Constitutional Court.
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List of Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Donald W. Jackson, Michael C. Tolley, and Mary L. Volcansek
Part I. Transnational Influences on the U.S. Supreme Court
1. The U.S. Supreme Court's Use of Comparative Law in the Construction of Constitutional Rights
David M. O'Brien
2. Foreign Law in American Jurisprudence: An Empirical Study
Francine Banner, Ken Miller and Doris Marie Provine
3. Foreign Law in Domestic Courts: Different Uses, Different Implications
Christopher A. Whytock
Part II. The Rise of Transnational Criminal Jurisdiction
4. Legitimacy and the Exercise of Universal Criminal Jurisdiction
Donald W. Jackson
5. International and Transnational Law, Sovereignty, and Hegemonic Power
Donald W. Jackson
6. The Promotion of International Criminal Law: Evaluating the International Criminal Court and the Apprehension of Indictees
Lilian A. Barria and Steven D. Roper
Part III. Transnational Influences on Rights, Citizenship, and Democratization
7. The Globalization of Human Rights Norms: Understanding the Opportunities and Limits of International Law and Transnational Activism
Hans Peter Schmitz
8. Rights and the Limits of Transnational Solidarity in Europe
Lisa Conant
9. International Imposition and Transmission of Democracy and Rule of Law: Lessons from Central America
Rachel Bowen
10. The Role of International Actors in Promoting Rule of Law in Uganda
Joseph Isanga
Part IV. Transnational Law and the Boundaries of Sovereignty
11. Blurring Sovereignty: The Human Rights Act of 1998 and British Law
Mary L. Volcansek
12. Fundamental Rights, the European Court of Justice, and European Integration
Michael C. Tolley
13. Spreading the Word: Australia's National Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission as Transnational Legal Entrepreneur
Rhonda Evans Case
14. Judicial Globalization: How the International Law of Human Rights Changed the Argentine Supreme Court
Walter F. Carnota
Conclusion
Donald W. Jackson, Michael C. Tolley and Mary L. Volcansek
List of Contributors
Index
