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The article discusses the importance of language in comparative constitutional law. Topics discussed include the usage of foreign law by constitutional courts, the influence of U.S. constitutionalism and the importance of U.S. legal education and its role in the use of foreign law. It mentions the application of foreign citations in constitutional cases and comparative constitutional law for universal human rights protection as well as judicial review.

Globalization and its influence on legal education is a topic of growing interest to the legal profession and to legal educators alike. The first articles on the subject appeared in the mid-1990s, and the frequency of publications has been increasing ever since. This bibliography provides annotations to English-language law journal articles published between 1995 and 2008 that focus on the impact of globalization on legal education in the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Essay analyzes the effect of the Rehnquist Court on Supreme Court precedent, using a network of all Court citations to other Supreme Court cases. Network analysis enables a study of the Court's use of precedent that may not be readily visible from case-by-case reviews. We find that the Rehnquist Court has made a dramatic alteration in the network of precedent and, in the process, set the stage for a potentially revolutionary change in the makeup of the law. This may be very much the effect contemplated by the Reagan Administration in its effort to remake the composition of the Court. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]