"A decent Respect to the Opinions of [Human]kind"

Subtitled "The Value of a Comparative Perspective in Constitutional Adjudication," this is an address to the Constitutional Court of South Africa given February 7, 2006 by Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

(via Stephen Kaus at the Huffington Post)

Also by Justice Ginzburg,
Brown v. Board of Education in International Context, given at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, South Africa, February 7, 2006,
and
Advocating the Elimination of Gender-Based Discrimination:
The 1970s New Look at the Equality Principle, given at the
University of Cape Town, South Africa, February 10, 2006