INTERNATIONAL LAW AS A TOOL OF CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION Kristen Walker' INTRODUCTION In series of judgments in the past five years Justice Kirby has developed an interpretive principle concerning the use of international law in constitutional interpretation. He has adapted the words of Brennan J in Mabo v Queensland [No 2]'to formulate the proposition that: The common law, and constitutiona
This volume is an attempt to explore the value of rational-choice analysis for the study of international law. As the editors suggest, the field of international law has been quite resistant to rational-choice analysis. It is important to recognize, however, that the enterprise of which this volume is an example is not new. Political scientists have used