In 1965, as part of the Restatement Second, the American Law Institute published the original Restatement on the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Twenty two years later in 1987, a new edition appeared – The Restatement (Third) on the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. Together, they’ve had an enormous influence on the courts; look at many of the major Supreme Court cases of the last several decades on foreign relations law – Sanchez-Llamas,
Sosa, Empagram, Hartford Fire, Saudi Arabia v. Nelson, Dames & Moore, Sabbatino, etc.—and...