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Article: Sexual Orientation and Human Rights: The United States Constitution, the European Convention and the Canadian Charter.
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- Michigan Law Review
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- May 1, 1997
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By Robert Wintemute. Oxford: Claredon Press. 1995. Pp. xxxiv, 292. $19.95.
American lawyers and courts are remarkable in the extent to which they ignore other countries' law. While they often share many norms -- and even jurisprudential roots -- with their foreign counterparts, they pay little attention to what is happening beyond America's borders. It is nearly unheard of for an American court to cite, even as persuasive authority, a decision by a court outside the United States. Nor do litigators very often invoke such authority, even when it supports their position. As Mary Ann Glendon reports:
Courts and legal scholars in many other liberal ...