José A. Cabranes

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Closing Remarks on Judge Juan Torruella

These closing remarks were delivered at the Yale Law Journal Insular Cases Panel in Honor of Judge Juan Torruella held via a Zoom conference.

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On Judge Juan Torruella

Judge José Cabranes describes Judge Juan Torruella’s legacy and his place in the history of Puerto Rico and of the United States.

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Our Imperial Criminal Procedure: Problems in the Extraterritorial Application of U.S. Constitutional Law

118 Yale L.J. 1660 (2009). From the early days of the Republic, courts have encountered the question of whether and to what extent provisions of the Constitution establishing individual rights have force beyond the borders of the United States—that is, whether the Constitution has “extraterritorial” force. Despite nearly two centuries of decisions on this issue, the law remains unsettled, and...