ERIC POSNER on the European Court’s elevation of E.U. law over international law: “Nothing remarkable here for an American lawyer, who is accustomed to the idea that constitutional rules take precedence over international law. The European Court is a creature of the European treaty system, not the UN; what else is it to do when European law and international law conflict? However, Europeans have long complained of the American practice of declaring that all U.S. treaty obligations are limited by the U.S. Constitution. And it takes a bit of legerdemain to convert regional treaty obligations into a “constitution,” but this is an old story. It turns out that Europeans, too, will not allow international law to supersede their fundamental values. Good for them!”