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Disaggregating Corporate Liability: Japanese Multinationals And World War Ii, Timothy Webster
Disaggregating Corporate Liability: Japanese Multinationals And World War Ii, Timothy Webster
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The past two decades have witnessed unprecedented attention to corporate legal liability for human rights abuses. Yet the supporting jurisprudence is relatively thin. Scholars generally agree that corporations can incur legal liability for serious violations of international human rights law. But courts find any number of ways to avoid such a result. This Article finds qualified support for an emergent norm of corporate civil liability from recent litigation in Japan. Specifically, the transnational war reparations litigation of the past three decades has yielded a consistent jurisprudence of qualified liability. Courts detail the abuses committed by Japan's largest multinational corporations, and …
A Dismal Day For Human Rights In The Us, Lauren Carasik
A Dismal Day For Human Rights In The Us, Lauren Carasik
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Obama’S National Security Exceptionalism, Sudha Setty
Obama’S National Security Exceptionalism, Sudha Setty
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This Article discusses how continued national security exceptionalism engenders a view of the United States as considering itself to be above international obligations to investigate and prosecute torturers and war criminals, and the view by the global community that the United States is willing to apply one standard for itself, and another for the rest of the world. Exceptionalism not only poses real challenges in terms of law, morality, and building useful relationships with allied nations, but acts as a step backward for the creation of enforceable international norms and standards, and in efforts to restore a balance in the …
The World Bank Has An Accountability Problem, Lauren Carasik
The World Bank Has An Accountability Problem, Lauren Carasik
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Stop Mass Deportation From The Dominican Republic To Haiti, Lauren Carasik
Stop Mass Deportation From The Dominican Republic To Haiti, Lauren Carasik
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Land-Rights Defenders Face Growing Threat, Lauren Carasik
Land-Rights Defenders Face Growing Threat, Lauren Carasik
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Us Aid Proposal Could Worsen Violence In El Salvador, Lauren Carasik
Us Aid Proposal Could Worsen Violence In El Salvador, Lauren Carasik
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Federal Appeals Court Spares Mentally Ill Man From Execution -- For Now, Lauren Carasik
Federal Appeals Court Spares Mentally Ill Man From Execution -- For Now, Lauren Carasik
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Us Policies In Mexico Have Made Bad Situation Worse, Lauren Carasik
Us Policies In Mexico Have Made Bad Situation Worse, Lauren Carasik
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Human Rights For Thee But Not For Me, Lauren Carasik
Human Rights For Thee But Not For Me, Lauren Carasik
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Supreme Court Ruling Shields Corporations From Accountability, Lauren Carasik
Supreme Court Ruling Shields Corporations From Accountability, Lauren Carasik
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Honduras’ Political Violence Threatens To Undermine Its November Elections, Lauren Carasik
Honduras’ Political Violence Threatens To Undermine Its November Elections, Lauren Carasik
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A Tale Of Two Responses To Lgbti Violence, Lauren Carasik
A Tale Of Two Responses To Lgbti Violence, Lauren Carasik
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Honduras: Where The Blood Flows And The Rivers Are Dammed, Lauren Carasik
Honduras: Where The Blood Flows And The Rivers Are Dammed, Lauren Carasik
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The Long Arc Of Justice In Guatemala, Lauren Carasik
The Long Arc Of Justice In Guatemala, Lauren Carasik
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When Fear Eclipses Justice, We All Lose: Shutter Guantanamo Now, Lauren Carasik
When Fear Eclipses Justice, We All Lose: Shutter Guantanamo Now, Lauren Carasik
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Kiobel Case: Corporate Accountability For Human Rights Abuses, Lauren Carasik
Kiobel Case: Corporate Accountability For Human Rights Abuses, Lauren Carasik
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Formalism And State Secrets, Sudha Setty
Formalism And State Secrets, Sudha Setty
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The state secrets privilege has received a tremendous amount of scholarly attention in the U.S. in the last decade. In September 2009, the Obama administration created a new policy that mandated a more rigorous internal administrative review prior to invoking the state secrets privilege. It appears as though this internal review process has resulted in little difference with regard to the invocation of the privilege at the pleadings stage in cases that allege torture and other human rights abuses. This chapter of the forthcoming comparative law volume Secrecy, National Security and the Vindication of Constitutional Law (David Cole, Federico Fabbrini …
Book Review: Elizabeth Wicks' Human Rights And Healthcare, Barbara A. Noah
Book Review: Elizabeth Wicks' Human Rights And Healthcare, Barbara A. Noah
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The Author reviews the book Human Rights and Healthcare, by Elizabeth Wicks and published by Hart Publishing, 2007. Although the book focuses mainly on rights within the United Kingdom, those familiar with healthcare and bioethics issues within the United States or elsewhere will find it an extremely useful comparative resource.