Unity or Uniformity? Domestic Courts and Treaty Interpretation

Legal Uniformity in American Courts

Intercircuit splits occur when two or more circuits on the U.S. Courts of Appeals issue different legal rules about the same legal question. When this happens, federal law is applied differently in different parts of the country. Intercircuit splits are an indicator of legal non-uniformity, an impediment to lawyering and judging, and have real, practical consequences for American law. They are ...

When Courts Collide: Integrated Domestic Violence Courts and Court Pluralism

This Article proposes court pluralism as a new theory for analyzing the role of the justice system in addressing domestic violence. It argues that a systemic view of the justice system is essential to developing coherent reform strategies, and lays out the foundation for taking into account the unique functions of civil and criminal justice in domestic violence cases. In doing so, the Article c...

Multilingual Treaty Interpretation and SALT II

Domestic-international Linkages: India and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Dinshaw Mistry is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and is currently in residence at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He has recently published articles on the Indian space program (Pacific Affairs) and the missile nonproliferation regime (Contemporary Security Policy). DOMESTIC-INTERNATIONAL LINKAGES: INDIA AND THE COMPREHENSI...

Politics as Law: The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Separation of Powers, and Treaty Interpretation