The Domestic Standing of International Law: A Non-State Account

IF 1.2 4区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Columbia Journal of Transnational Law Pub Date : 2018-04-01 DOI:10.2139/SSRN.3191064
Tamar Megiddo
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Despite its central contribution to the construction of the global legal order, the United States has long been perceived to exclude itself from the reach of international law. Its exceptionalist image has been reinforced by statements of political leaders, federal law provisions, and court decisions. This Article argues, however, that in order to appropriately assess international law’s standing in the United States, one must consider not only the position of its formal government but also the interpretation, application, and challenge of international law by non-State actors. Moreover, it stresses the importance of studying not only elite actors’ engagement with international law but also that of individuals, groups, and organizations outside the formal bureaucracy. The Article surveys interventions by government officials, producers, consumers, and civil society representatives in the context of a U.S. policy-making process initiated pursuant to a World Trade Organization ruling. It shows that, contrary to the United States’ exceptionalist image, U.S. actors of all stripes invoked and relied on international law extensively, thereby carving a space for it as a non-negligible consideration in the decision-making process. Therefore, the Article argues that accounting for non-State stakeholders is imperative in evaluating the domestic standing of international law.
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国际法的国内地位:非国家账户
尽管美国对全球法律秩序的建设做出了核心贡献,但长期以来,人们一直认为美国将自己排除在国际法之外。政治领导人的声明、联邦法律条款和法院裁决强化了其例外主义形象。然而,本条认为,为了适当评估国际法在美国的地位,不仅必须考虑其正式政府的立场,还必须考虑非国家行为者对国际法的解释、适用和质疑。此外,它强调,不仅要研究精英行为者参与国际法的情况,还要研究正式官僚机构之外的个人、团体和组织的参与情况。这篇文章调查了政府官员、生产者、消费者和民间社会代表在根据世界贸易组织裁决启动的美国决策过程中的干预。它表明,与美国的例外主义形象相反,美国各种行为者广泛援引和依赖国际法,从而为国际法在决策过程中作为不可忽视的考虑因素开辟了空间。因此,该条认为,在评估国际法的国内地位时,必须考虑到非国家利益攸关方。
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期刊介绍: Over forty years] ago, under the guidance of the late Professor Wolfgang Friedmann, a group of Columbia law students belonging to the Columbia Society of International Law founded the Bulletin of the Columbia Society of International Law. The Bulletin’s first volume, containing two issues, was a forum for the informal discussion of international legal questions; the second volume, published in 1963 under the title International Law Bulletin, aspired more to the tradition of the scholarly law review. Today’s Columbia Journal of Transnational Law is heir to those early efforts.
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