The Supreme Court and foreign sources of law: two hundred years of practice and the juvenile death penalty decision.

From: William and Mary Law Review | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Calabresi, Steven G.; Zimdahl, Stephanie Dotson | Copyright information

"The opinion of the world community, while not controlling our outcome, does provide respected and significant confirmation for our own conclusions."

--Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority in Roper v. Simmons (1)

"[T]his Nation's evolving understanding of human dignity certainly is neither wholly isolated from, nor inherently at odds with, the values prevailing in other countries. On the contrary, we should not be surprised to find congruence between dome...

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