Prof. Miller asks: > With the discussion on the List about customary international law, I am > curious if anyone else teaches anything about customary international law > as part of Constitutional Law I. I will be teaching Con Law for the first > time this year -- after a ten year wait -- and plan to spend about 45 > minutes of class time introducing students to customary international law > and its function as a type of federal law as part of about 90 minutes of > class discussing International Law and the Treaty Power. While obviously > 45 minutes is not much, I suspect that over half of our students graduate > without having even heard the phrase customary international law, and my > feeling is that Constitutional Law I has to at least mention the concept. > (Personally, I wish it were also part of the Bar Exam under the > Constitutional Law heading.)
COMMENT: I am glad to hear this. FYI Mark Tushnet and I wrote a book on this very topic for use in Con law classes: Martin & Tushnet, The Rights International Companion to Constitutional Law: An International Human Rights Law Supplement (Kluwer Law International, 2000). Mark also wrote a Teacher's Manual and Guide to Coordinating the Companion with Constitutional Law Casebooks (with some website help from Stephen Schnably). This Teacher's Manual is available on <http://www.rightsinternational.org>. Francisco Forrest Martin
