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The Transnationalists are Coming!

In this edition of Liberty Law Talk, I speak with John Yoo about how the American Constitution should interact with the proliferating sources of international law in treaties, conventions, agreements, and customary international law.  A growing array of transnationalist legal scholars believe international law should be more easily incorporated into America’s constitutional and domestic law however much it may interfere with popular consent. Yoo’s new book, co-authored with Julian Ku, Taming Globalization: International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order, provides sturdy constitutional arguments for dealing with these questions. The Constitution’s core structure of separation of powers and federalism can be utilized, Yoo argues, in aiding America in the growing international legal environment by ensuring that the fundamental doctrines of the Constitution guide the process.

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Introducing Myself

As an academic, I have worked in various fields, but my dominant passion has been the libertarian pursuit of free markets and freedom under the law. In recent years, I have focused mainly on constitutional originalism. At the University of San Diego, I am the Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism and have a book coming out next year from Harvard, Originalism and the Good Constitution (co-authored with John McGinnis), which presents a new defense of originalism.