International Week at SCOTUS: Will They Resolve the Self-Executing Treaty Puzzle?
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two of the most important cases on the status of treaty and international law in the U.S. system in the last fifty years. On Tuesday, Scotus will consider the petition of Hamdan, an alleged Al Qaeda member who is challenging the legality of the system of military commissions under U.S. law...