Second Circuit Finds Provision of New York Convention Self-Executing
The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause states that “all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land,” but the U.S. Supreme Court has long distinguished between self-executing and non-self-executing treaties. Self-executing treaty provisions are effective as federal law without implementing legislation. Non-self-executing treaty…
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