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In: Virginia Journal of International Law Digest, Vol. 53, 2012
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments November 9, 2012 erstellt
Description:
This online essay documents the fact that twenty Supreme Court cases have already recognized that corporations and companies can have duties and rights under customary and treaty-based international law. In view of that fact, one would expect the Supreme Court in Kiobel to reaffirm its many decisions that corporations can have duties under customary and treaty-based international law. The essay also addresses significant trends in judicial decision and other trends that can support a decision of the Justices to affirm that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) is extraterritorial in its reach and that violations of international law resting on universal jurisdiction and customary and/or treaty-based international law are actionable under the statute in federal courts