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082 0 0 _aKC86 .B56 2010
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100 1 _aBingham, T. H.
245 1 0 _aWidening horizons :
_bthe influence of comparative law and international law on domestic law /
264 1 _aCambridge
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2010
300 _axiii, 90 pages ;
490 1 _aThe Hamlyn lectures
505 0 _aForeign moods, fads, or fashions -- Wider still and wider -- Nonsense on international stilts?
520 _a"British judges increasingly now pay attention to foreign case law when deciding domestic cases, and are required to interpret and apply international law in domestic courts and administer an international code of human rights. Tom Bingham examines the consequences of this increasingly internationalist outlook of British courts, including cases which rely on a range of foreign cases, cases where an international convention or principle is interpreted and cases in which human rights cases are decided in reliance on principles established elsewhere"--
650 0 _aInternational and municipal law
650 0 _aComparative law
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_cBK
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