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The Enforcement of International Decisions in U.S. Courts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Ingrid Wuerth
Ingrid Wuerth*
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Vanderbilt University Law School
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A Comparative Look at Domestic Enforcement of International Decisions
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 103 , 2009 , pp. 52 - 56
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2009

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References

1 Medellin v. Texas, 128 S.Ct. 1346 (2008).

2 ld. at 1357 (internal citations omitted).

3 See Alford, Roger, Federal Courts, International Tribunals, and the Continuum of Deference, 43 Va. J. Int’l L. 675, 685-87 (2003)Google Scholar.

4 22 U.S.C. § 1605a(a).

5 Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon, 548 U.S. 331 (2006).

6 Id. at 354 (quoting Article 59, Statute of the International Court of Justice).

7 Id. at 353-54.

8 Damrosch, Lori F. A Comparative Look at Domestic Enforcement of International Tribunal Judgments, 103 ASIL Proc. (2010)Google Scholar.

9 Id.

10 Some early cases appeared to follow this approach with respect to WTO decisions, but later cases have held that because of language in the GATT implementing statute courts would not give WTO decisions any deference until they are implemented by the executive branch. Coras Stall BV v. Department of Commerce, 395 F.3d 1343 (C.A. Fed. 2005). See also Stephan, Paul, Treaties and Domestic Law After Medellin v. Texas, 13 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 11, 13, n. 5 (2009)Google Scholar (identifying legislation that limits the application of treaties in ways inconsistent with the laws of the United States).

11 Sanchez-Llamas, 548 U.S. at 383-84 (Breyer, J., dissenting).

12 Paulus, Andreas, A Comparative Look at Domestic Enforcement of International Tribunal Judgments, 103 ASIL Proc. (2010)Google Scholar.

13 Hoppe, Carsten, Implementation of LaGrand and Avena in Germany and the United States, 18 Eur. J. Int’l L. 317 (2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

14 Verdier, Pierre-Hugues, Enforcement of International Judgments and Decisions in Canadian Courts, 103 ASIL Proc. (2010)Google Scholar.