Rebecca Crootof

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Judicious Influence: Non-Self-Executing Treaties and the Charming Betsy Canon

120 Yale L.J. 1784 (2011).  Despite their seeming impotency, non-self-executing treaties play an important role in domestic jurisprudence. When a statute permits more than one construction, judges have a number of interpretive tools at their disposal. One of these is the Charming Betsy canon, which encourages judges to select an interpretation of an ambiguous statute that accords with U.S. international...