{"id":684,"date":"2008-09-20T12:38:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T18:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=684"},"modified":"2008-09-30T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T18:39:33","slug":"declining-influence-of-the-supremes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/09\/20\/declining-influence-of-the-supremes\/","title":{"rendered":"declining influence of the supremes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SNW6AgjGUZI\/AAAAAAAABso\/mT50smD_rvQ\/s1600-h\/warren.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248305458670096786\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0JuSECuIrUI\/SNW6AgjGUZI\/AAAAAAAABso\/mT50smD_rvQ\/s200\/warren.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>adam liptak of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/18\/us\/18legal.html?_r=2&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;oref=slogin&amp;adxnnlx=1221951648-KBagg\/ohmWB9ZXhQOvh+zw&amp;oref=slogin\">times<\/a> <\/em>offers further evidence that the american century is over, or at least in remission. for decades, jurists around the world have looked to united states <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h0HE7TC8y5g\">supreme<\/a> court opinions for legal guidance. today, not so much:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">Australian state supreme courts cited American decisions 208 times in 1995, according to a recent <\/span><a title=\"Russell Smyth study\" href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/russell_smyth\/1\/\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\"> by Russell Smyth, an Australian economist. By 2005, the number had fallen to 72.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:85%\"><br \/>\nThe story is similar around the globe, legal experts say, particularly in cases involving human rights. These days, foreign courts in developed democracies often cite the rulings of the <\/span><a title=\"More articles about European Court of Human Rights\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/e\/european_court_of_human_rights\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">European Court of Human Rights<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\"> in cases concerning equality, liberty and prohibitions against cruel treatment, said Harold Hongju Koh, the dean of the Yale Law School. In those areas, Dean Koh said, \u201cthey tend not to look to the rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>adam liptak of the times offers further evidence that the american century is over, or at least in remission. for decades, jurists around the world have looked to united states supreme court opinions for legal guidance. today, not so much: Australian state supreme courts cited American decisions 208 times in 1995, according to a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}