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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.
Universal Human Rights: A Generational History, Eric A. Engle
Universal Human Rights: A Generational History, Eric A. Engle
Eric A. Engle
The article outlines the generational theory of human rights evolving from first generation procedural individual freedoms from through second generation collective rights to into third generational aspirational goals. That model is generally true but womens rights and rights of non-white persons do not perfectly fit into that model being approximately one or even two generations delayed.