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Heightened Pleading, Christopher M. Fairman
Heightened Pleading, Christopher M. Fairman
Christopher M Fairman
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Human Rights And Civil Litigation In United States Courts: The Holocaust- Era Cases, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Human Rights And Civil Litigation In United States Courts: The Holocaust- Era Cases, Samuel P. Baumgartner
Samuel P. Baumgartner
This is a comment on an article by Professor Burt Neuborne, in which he describes in detail the Holocaust assets litigation against Swiss, German, Austrian, and French corporations. In the comment, I attempt to put that litigation episode into the larger context of human rights enforcement through civil litigation in United States courts as seen from a theoretical concept drawn from international relations theory. I then try to gain some insights into such civil human-rights litigation from the Holocaust cases.
I conclude that the Holocaust-era litigation has done considerable good by creating a vast pool of assets for distribution among …