Peggy Replies to Professor Paulsen

I opened the latest SSRN Public International Law listings this morning and noted with pleasure Peggy’s response to Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen’s recent article on constitutional interpretation and international law.  Peggy’s reply is in the Yale Law Journal online edition.  As always Peggy makes fresh and lively arguments, and although I incline to Professor Paulsen’s views on this, I think anyone looking for a full statement of the issues and arguments needs to read them together.  Also, taken together, they an excellent example of what a good scholarly exchange should be.  Congratulations to Peggy!  From the abstract’s opening:

This essay reply to Professor Michael Stokes Paulsen, “The Constitutional Power to Interpret International Law,” 118 YALE L. J. 1774 (2009) argues that Paulsen’s static, formalist portrait of the foreign affairs Constitution stands in stark contrast to the dynamic realities of transnational lawmaking today.