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The Alien Tort Statute And The Torture Victims' Protection Act: Jurisdictional Foundations And Procedural Obstacles, Eric A. Engle
The Alien Tort Statute And The Torture Victims' Protection Act: Jurisdictional Foundations And Procedural Obstacles, Eric A. Engle
Eric A. Engle
Outlines the jurisdictional and procedural obstacles to alien tort claims and claims under the torture victims's protection act and presents solutions to them.
The Transformation Of The International Legal System: The Post-Westphalian Legal Order, Eric A. Engle
The Transformation Of The International Legal System: The Post-Westphalian Legal Order, Eric A. Engle
Eric A. Engle
Traces the rise and decline of the national state as hermetic juridical atom (realist 'billiard ball' theory) and its replacement by a multilevel theory which sublimates state power upward as it dissolves it downward to non-state actors. Argues that classical sovereignty created and encouraged war and that post-Westphalian world is integrated networked and much more stable. Citations from the text: The rise of private rights and duties under national and international law enforced through universal jurisdiction and supranational trading systems both global and regional together mark the end of the Westphalian state system. ... In this system, states were the …