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Copyright And Tort As Mirror Models: On Not Mistaking For The Right Hand What The Left Hand Is Doing, Wendy J. Gordon
Copyright And Tort As Mirror Models: On Not Mistaking For The Right Hand What The Left Hand Is Doing, Wendy J. Gordon
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Back To Basics: Public Adjudication Of Corporate Atrocities Torts, Maya Steinitz
Back To Basics: Public Adjudication Of Corporate Atrocities Torts, Maya Steinitz
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The editors of this online symposium invited me to contribute to the subject of an argument I have recently advanced. This argument is that the world needs a permanent International Court of Civil Justice (ICCJ) to adjudicate cross-border mass torts. A common reaction to this proposal has been to suggest that the function of such an international court be assumed by one of the existing arbitration institutions or filled by a new one. I’d like to take this opportunity to argue against that idea.
Corporate atrocities, which are the symposium’s focus, may be crimes, but they also have a tort …