RENE SAGUISAG
I ASK my studes, which is superior, a local law or a treaty, asked in the bar exam in 2008 (“II. May a treaty violate international law?”, echoing a bar query of 2003). The answer I prefer to see is, it depends on who is asked to decide: if a local court, it could be hometown, as held in the US, and as stated in various obiters here. A treaty has no “superior sanctity” over municipal law, the US doctrine.