The Death of Treaty Supremacy

David L. Sloss is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Global Law and Policy at Santa Clara University Law School. Professor Sloss focuses his scholarship on the application of international law in domestic courts, with specializations in international human rights law, treaties, U.S. foreign relations law, and constitutional law. He is the editor of The Role of Domestic Courts in Treaty Enforcement: A Comparative Study (2009), and co-editor of International Law in the U.S. Supreme Court: Continuity and Change (2011). He has published numerous articles on the history of U.S. foreign affairs law and the judicial enforcement of treaties in domestic courts. Professor Sloss received his B.A. from Hampshire College, his M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School. He taught for nine years at Saint Louis University School of Law.

• List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Treaty Supremacy at the FoundingChapter One: The Origins of Treaty Supremacy, 1776-1787Chapter Two: State Ratification Debates Chapter Three: Treaty Supremacy in the 1790sPart Two: Treaty Supremacy from 1800 to 1945Chapter Four: Foster v. NeilsonChapter Five: Treaties and State LawChapter Six: Self-Execution in the Political BranchesChapter Seven: Self-Execution in the Federal CourtsChapter Eight: Seeds of ChangePart Three: The Human Rights RevolutionChapter Nine: Human Rights Activism in the United States: 1946-48Chapter Ten: The Nationalists Strike Back: 1949-51Chapter Eleven: Fujii, Brown and Bricker: 1952-54Chapter Twelve: Business as Usual in the Courts: 1946-65Chapter Thirteen: The American Law Institute and the Restatement of Foreign Relations LawPart Four: Treaty Supremacy and Constitutional ChangeChapter Fourteen: Treaty Supremacy in the 21st CenturyChapter Fifteen: Invisible Constitutional ChangeList of Abbreviations Used in EndnotesEndnotesBibliographyIndex

[The Death of Treaty Supremacy] is necessary reading for all who study, practice or teach in the fields of international or foreign relations law or otherwise want or need to understand the role of treaties in the U.S. legal system.