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Real Danger of the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty Is in the Interpretation, Not the Text

By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, July 19 2012

Ever heard of transnational legal theory? If the Obama Administration gets its way, the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty being negotiated in New York this month could become the kind of international legal document that transnational judges inside the United States will use to gut the Second Amendment. One of the leading American lawyers in the transnational movement is former Yale Law School dean Harold Koh. While at Yale, Koh published an academic article titled, “Agora: The United States Constitution and International Law: International Law as Part of Our Law.” …

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