Abstract Accounts of voluntary judicial reference to foreign sources in non-canonical settings are rare. The general literature on the subject stresses the importance of factors such as global convergence and inevitability of engagement with foreign jurisprudence; judicial prestige- or legitimacy-enhancing factors; and structural features (e.g. constitutional provisions that call for foreign citations, linguistic permeability, a … Continue reading Ran Hirschl Colloquium, 4 December 2013