STEVE SANDERS American Legal Conservatives Oppose the Citation of Foreign Law, But What About the Hallowed Practice of Citing to Blackstone? FindLaw guest columnist and attorney Steve Sanders contends that legal conservatives, including Justice Antonin Scalia, indulge in serious hypocrisy when they both decry the Supreme Court's citation to sources of foreign law and, at the same time, themselves frequently cite to work of the British legal giant Blackstone. Though conservatives may counter that Blackstone's thought is especially relevant because he influenced the Constitution's Framers, Sanders responds that this points actually cuts in favor of allowing modern courts to follow the Framers' example by similarly citing to, and being influenced by, their own modern foreign contemporaries.