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1 Law s Borders: Yale Global Constitutionalism 2012 OPINIONS EXCERPTED No (Italian Constitutional Court) (2007)... IV-33 A and Others v. U.K. (European Court of Human Rights) (2009)... I-31 A, B and C v. Ireland (European Court of Human Rights) (2010)... III-43 Al-Jedda v. United Kingdom (European Court of Human Rights) (2011)... I-36 Ambrose v. Harris (United Kingdom Supreme Court) (2011)... VI-14 Al-Bihani v. Obama (United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia) (2010) Hirst v. United Kingdom (European Court of Human Rights) (2005)... III-13 Lisbon Treaty Case (German Constitutional Court) (2009)... IV-16 Lisbon Treaty II (Czech Constitutional Court) (2009)... IV-19 M v. Germany (European Court of Human Rights) (2010)... IV-21 Medellín v. Texas (United States Supreme Court) (2008)... VI-35 Mork v. Germany (European Court of Human Rights (2011)... IV-28 Prosecutor v. Erdemovic (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) (1997)... I-46 Prosecutor v. Kallon (Special Court for Sierra Leone) (2004)... I-51 Prosecutor v. Tadić (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) (1995)... I-7 Public Committee Against Torture v. Government (Israel Supreme Court) (2006)... I-13, I-67 Sejdić v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (European Court of Human Rights (2009)... III-32 A-1

2 Excerpted Materials COMMENTARY AND ADDITIONAL MATERIALS EXCERPTED Abramovich, Víctor, From Massive Violations to Structural Patterns: New Approaches and Classic Tensions in the Inter-American Human Rights System (2009)... IV-38 Alston, Philip, Study on Targeted Killings (United Nations Human Rights Council) (2010)... I-20 Auer, Andreas, The Constitutional Scheme of Federalism (2005)... III-5 Barak, Aharon, Human Rights in Times of Terror A Judicial Point of View (2008)... I-14 Bluntschli, Johann Caspar, Amnesties (1868)... I-44 von Bogdandy, Armin, and Ingo Venzke, In Whose Name? An Investigation of International Courts Public Authority and its Democratic Justification (2012)... VI-55 Bratza, Nicolas, Speech at High Level Conference on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights (2012)... II-7 Cassese, Sabino, The Global Polity (2012)... VI-60 Chang, Karl S., Enemy Status and Military Detention in the War Against al-qaeda (2012)... I-25 Cohen, Amichai, Legal Operational Advice in the Israeli Defense Forces (2011)... I-18 Cohen, Jean L., Whose Sovereignty? Empire Versus International Law (2004)... VI-75 Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilians in Time of War (Fourth Geneva Convention) (1949)... I-30 Correspondence between James M. Calhoun, Mayor and Councilmen of Atlanta, Georgia, and U.S. General William Tecumseh Sherman (1864)... I-66 Cover, Robert, The Uses of Jurisdictional Redundancy: Interest, Ideology, and Innovation (1981)... III-7 Goldsmith, Jack, Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11 (2012)... I-16 A-2

3 Law s Borders: Yale Global Constitutionalism 2012 Goodman, Ryan, The Detention of Civilians in Armed Conflict (2009)... I-39 Grimm, Dieter, Defending Sovereign Statehood Against Transforming the European Union into a State (2009)... VI-4 Hale, Brenda, Is Strasbourg or the Supreme Court Supreme? (2012)... VI-23 Hills, Jr., Roderick M., Counting States (2009)... III-35 High Level Conference on the Future of the European Court of Human Rights, Brighton Declaration (2012)... II-2 Holder, Eric, Speech at Northwestern University Law School (2012)... I-22 Ignatieff, Michael, We re So Exceptional (2012)... I-56 International Committee of the Red Cross, Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law (2008)... I-23 International Law Association, Final Report on the Meaning of Armed Conflict in International Law (2010)... I-8 Joint Committee on Human Rights, Enhancing Parliament s Role in Relation to Human Rights Judgments (2009)... III-24 Klabbers, Jan, The Idea(s) of International Law (2011)... VI-71 Komarek, Jan, Playing with Matches: The Czech Constitutional Court s Ultra Vires Revolution (2012)... IV-11 Lieber, Francis, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field (1863)... I-65 Lord Irvine of Lairg, A British Interpretation of Convention Rights (2011)... III-27 Lorenzetti, Ricardo, Global Governance: Dialogue Between Courts (2010)... IV-35 Maduro, Miguel Poiares, Three Claims of Constitutional Pluralism (2012)... IV-5 Moy, Abigail H., International Criminal Court's Arrest Warrants and Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army: Renewing the Debate over Amnesty and Complementarity (2006)... I-57 Mullally, Siobhán, Debating Reproduction Rights in Ireland (2005)... III-56 A-3

4 Excerpted Materials Muller, Sam, Why Law Scenarios 2030? (2012)... VI-66 Murray, John L., Consensus: Concordance, or Hegemony of the Majority? (2008)... III-38 Oppenheim, Lassa, International Law (1912)... I-45 Osiel, Mark, After International Law: Non-Juridical Responses to Mass Atrocity (2011)... VI-82 Paisley, Ian, Peace and the Limits of Justice (2012)... I-58 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 Aug. 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I) (1977)... I-63 Reisman, W. Michael, Institutions and Practices for Restoring and Maintaining Public Order (1995)... I-60 Reisman, W. Michael, International Investment Law and Arbitration Amidst Global Change (2005)... V-2 Resnik, Judith, Categorical Federalism: Jurisdiction, Gender, and the Globe (2001)... III-40 Sadurski, Wojciech, Solange Chapter 3 : Constitutional Courts in Central Europe Democracy European Union (2008)... IV-8 Schmitt, Carl, Theory of the Partisan (1963)... I-9 Stone Sweet, Alec, A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Constitutional Pluralism and Rights Adjudication in Europe (2012)... IV-44 Stone Sweet, Alec, Trustee Courts and the Evolution of International Regimes: The Politics of Majoritarian Activism in the ECHR, the EU, and the WTO (2012)... IV-41 Siegel, Reva B., The Constitutionalization of Abortion (2012)... III-54 Sumption, Jonathan, Judicial and Political Decisionmaking: The Uncertain Boundary (2011)... VI-32 Walzer, Michael, The Dishonoring of Arthur Harris (1977)... I-71 Wildhaber, Luzius, A Constitutional Future for the European Court of Human Rights? (2002)... VI-34 Witt, John Fabian, The Enlightenment Separation of War from Crime (2012)... I-42 A-4

5 Law s Borders: Yale Global Constitutionalism 2012 Wittes, Benjamin, Detention and Trial: The Case for Candor After Guatánamo... I-40 A-5

6 Law s Borders: Yale Global Constitutionalism 2012 Justice, ceiling ornament, designed by Herman Rosse, circa 1913 for the Peace Palace. Photograph reproduced courtesy of the Carnegie Foundation. A-6

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