It started with a joint blog post from liberals Chris Bertram, Corey Robin and Alex Gourevitch (hereafter BRG), with replies by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, and a counter-reply from John Holbo.
And, far from being able to render definitive judgments on law of the sea matters like those raised by the Exxon Valdez case, our justices may hereafter be reduced to serving as little more than bailiffs for their international betters, enforcing edicts handed down from Hamburg or The Hague.