Public support for international law is high.
Hathaway ’07 [Oona; Nov 19; J.D. from Yale University, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School; The Nation, “Why We Need International Law,” https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/why-we-need-international-law/] nikhil
And public support for international law is not limited to a few narrow topics. It is consistently high across many issues and institutions. In a poll taken in 2000, for instance, 63 percent agreed that “it is becoming necessary to have more international standards and agreements among many nations on labor, human rights, and the environment.” A more recent poll (from June 2005) found that 73 percent of Americans specifically supported American participation in the Kyoto agreement to reduce global warming. That same month, another poll found that 67 percent of Americans believed that the United States should comply with rulings against it by the World Trade Organization. Americans are undoubtedly as acutely concerned about US national interest as the current Administration. Yet they understand that this interest can often best be advanced through international law rather than in opposition to it.