Remarks and observations concerning American law and cultural studies as it relates to courses taken by students in the University of Osnabrück's and University of Münster's foreign law programs.
Matt LeMieux
08 December 2015
The Reach of Constitutional Rights
Prof. Noah Feldman recently started his Bloomberg View column with the question "can an American detained and allegedly tortured by the FBI at black sites outside the U.S. sue for damages? The answer: NO. As we discussed in my American Constitutional Law course, the rights found in the U.S. constitution only protect people when they are inside the boundaries of the country (with a few exceptions). Feldman explains why a recent court decision dealing with the question he poses was wrongly decided. It's worth a read. So is the blog post by Lyle Denniston at the blog Constitution Daily.