The Declining Influence of American Law

From NY Time’s American Exception: “‘Most justices of the United States Supreme Court do not cite foreign case law in their judgments,’ Aharon Barak, then the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Israel, wrote in the Harvard Law Review in 2002. ‘They fail to make use of an important source of inspiration, one that enriches legal thinking, makes law more creative, and strengthens the democratic ties and foundations of different legal systems.’ Partly as a consequence, Chief Justice Barak wrote, the United States Supreme Court “is losing the central role it once had among courts in modern democracies.””

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