Stephen Breyer in New Yorker

On Foreign Policy: Supreme Court can learn from foreign laws

Though foreign laws could never be binding on an American court, they were still worth examining. Foreign judges have problems that often, more and more, are similar to our own. They're dealing with texts that more and more protect basic human rights. If here I have a human being called a judge in a different country dealing with a similar problem, why don't I read what he says, if it's similar enough? Maybe I'll learn something. Source: Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, "Swing Shift" Sep 12, 2005

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