This article describes the creation and development of the Restatement of the Law (Fourth): The Foreign Relations Law of the United States from the perspective of its coordinating reporter. The article first describes how the American Law Institute goes about creating restatements of the law, emphasizing aspects of the process that a European audience might find unfamiliar. It looks at aspects of the US legal system, especially the significant role of the judiciary as authors of law, and explains how this role shapes a document that has US judges as one of its significant audiences. It then discusses how conflict over the content of foreign relations law and the role of international law in US domestic law affects the Restatement and how the reporters seek to navigate these troubled waters. Finally, it explores the areas where the new Restatement (Fourth) parts company with its famous predecessor, the Restatement (Third), supervised by the late professor Louis Henkin. The article argues that the changes represent two things: a transformation of the world of foreign relations in the 35 years since the earlier work and a corresponding move towards modesty on the part of the professors who made this Restatement.

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法律重述的美国语境（四）：美国对外关系法

本文从协调记者的角度描述了法律重述（第四）：美国对外关系法的创建和发展。这篇文章首先描述了美国法律研究所如何重述法律，强调了欧洲观众可能不熟悉的过程的各个方面。它着眼于美国法律制度的各个方面，尤其是司法机构作为法律作者的重要作用，并解释了这一作用如何塑造了一份以美国法官为重要受众的文件。然后讨论了外交关系法内容的冲突以及国际法在美国国内法中的作用如何影响重述，以及记者如何寻求在这些混乱的水域中航行。最后，它探索了新的重述（第四）与其著名的前身重述（第三）分道扬镳的领域，该公司由已故教授路易斯·亨金（Louis Henkin）监督。文章认为，这些变化代表了两件事：自早期工作以来的 35 年中，外交关系世界发生了转变，以及做出这一重述的教授相应地走向了谦虚。