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Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Journal

2018

International criminal law

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Keynote Address: Is The Presumption Of Corporate Impunity Dead?, Ambassador David Scheffer Jan 2018

Keynote Address: Is The Presumption Of Corporate Impunity Dead?, Ambassador David Scheffer

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

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The Trafficking Victim Protection Act: The Best Hope For International Human Rights Litigation In The U.S. Courts?, Sara Sun Beale Jan 2018

The Trafficking Victim Protection Act: The Best Hope For International Human Rights Litigation In The U.S. Courts?, Sara Sun Beale

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

The article focuses on uses Alien Tort Statute as a vehicle for litigating human rights abuses in both civil and criminal prosecutions in the U.S. Topics discussed include developments in International Criminal Law in addressing human rights violations; judicial attitudes that could affect the interpretation of the Trafficking Victim Protection Act; and Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain court case on the same.


Foreword: Corporations On Trial For Human Rights Violations, Michael P. Scharf, Brooke Tyus Jan 2018

Foreword: Corporations On Trial For Human Rights Violations, Michael P. Scharf, Brooke Tyus

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

An introduction to the journal is presented.


Liberals Vs Romantics: Challenges Of An Emerging Corporate International Criminal Law, Carsten Stahn Jan 2018

Liberals Vs Romantics: Challenges Of An Emerging Corporate International Criminal Law, Carsten Stahn

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

Holding bystanders and corporate agents accountable for international crimes is often at the periphery of international criminal justice. Based on its liberal foundations, international criminal law has traditionally been strongly centered on individual agency. In the industrialist cases after World War II, individual criminal responsibility was used to demonstrate and sanction corporate involvement in crime. Ideas of corporate criminal responsibility have been voiced in the post-war era and in the context of the negotiations of the Statute. In recent years, they have witnessed a renaissance in several contexts: the jurisprudence of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the Malabo Protocol of …


Atrocities By Corporate Actors: A Historical Perspective, Michael J. Kelly Jan 2018

Atrocities By Corporate Actors: A Historical Perspective, Michael J. Kelly

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

The article focuses on developments in international criminal law in addressing corporate human rights violations.