Abstract
In evaluating the role of international law, most scholarship focuses on how international laws, treaties and courts function and are enforced. However, to best understand how international laws are created, as well as how they are internalized within individual countries’ judicial systems, it is also necessary to look at the normative side of international law. This project applies the theory of transnational legal process to examine how recognized international norms are uniquely recognized by different legal systems. More specifically, I analyze how political culture affects the level of consistency between international privacy norms and domestic law through the study of judicial decisions from United States Supreme Court and the French Court of Cassation. I conclude that the cases studied indicate a correlation between political culture and the manner in which international privacy norms are recognized and applied. Although political culture does not lead to significantly different conceptions of privacy rights and the protections they deserve, it does affect the process through which understandings of privacy evolve in response to new technology.
Advisor
Lantis, Jeffrey
Second Advisor
Burch, Laura
Department
French and Francophone Studies; International Relations
Recommended Citation
Kruper, Mallory, "The Role of Political Culture in Understanding Inconsistencies between International and Domestic Privacy Law in France and the United States" (2015). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 6805.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/6805
Keywords
International Law, France, United States, Privacy, International Norms
Publication Date
2015
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis Exemplar
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