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| | American Society of International Law 97th Annual Meeting, April 4, 2003 |
 | | One or more of the current Justices has considered comparative experience in Eighth Amendment death penalty cases, in federalism cases, in cases involving right to die statutes, in such technical matters as the "ancient title" of Massachusetts to Nantucket Sound, and various others. |
 | | In one recent death penalty case, for example, the Court rejected a treaty-based defense on procedural grounds, leaving open the possibility of such a defense in a case that did not involve a procedural default. |
 | | When I can, I like to remind audiences that I love the American bar associations, with their 600,000 members and 800,000 committees because it is in those committee meetings, through discussion and debate that law is created. |
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