Cautious But Engaged-An Empirical Study of the Australian High Court's Use of Foreign and International Materials in Constitutional Cases
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4219441 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisa Arcioni (0000-0003-3049-9618, The University of Sydney), Andrew Mcleod (0000-0002-7067-3441), Andrew I Mcleod (The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 437-470 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Legal Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0731-1265 • E-ISSN: 2331-4117 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0731126500012178 |
| OpenAlex | W1107321737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 21 |
The issue of whether constitutional courts should refer to foreign law has become the subject of debate and discussion around the world. In the US in particular, a heated judicial and academic debate on the issue has spilled into a political controversy extending to the introduction of federal and State Bills to prohibit judicial citation of foreign law and to Congressional proposals for such citation to be an impeachable offence. The use of foreign law, for some, is in tension with national sovereignty: one Congressman claimed that citation amounted to a surrender of lawmaking 'to the control of foreign courts and foreign governments', and potentially represented the start of an internationalist slide in foreign policy and security and military strategy as well. However, these normative debates about foreign law play at best a muted role in Australian jurisprudential and political life, and we do not directly engage with them here. Rather, we consider to what extent, andhow, Australian High Court judges engage with foreign and international legal materials in constitutional cases. In this article we track the frequency of citation in constitutional cases and provide a substantive analysis of the ways in which those materials are used
Judicial review · Lawmaking · Legislature · Political science · Politics · Supreme court · Comparative and International Law Studies · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law
Comparative Analysis in Judicial Decision-Making
The Charter Dialogue between Courts and Legislatures (Or Perhaps the Charter of Rights Isn't Such a Bad Thing after All)
Judicial Interaction on the Latham Court
The Supreme Court’s Use of Foreign Law in Constitutional Rights Cases
The ‘Washminster’ mutation
Judges and policy on the Latham court
A Difficult Dialogue
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |