This article outlines the litigation against multinational corporations. Specifically, it investigates a case brought against a United States-based corporation, Union Carbide, that owned 51% of stock in an Indian corporation that was responsible for a chemical plant gas leak. The leak resulted in the death of 2,100 people and the injuring of over 200,000. The intricacies of the case are discussed
The article considers the apparent disjunction between the Court\u27s effective limitation of liabil...
Increases in the amount and complexity of international trade and changes in jurisdictional rules ov...
In recent decades, some jurisdictions have shown a growing trend of private claims alleging direct l...
This article outlines the litigation against multinational corporations. Specifically, it investigat...
When a foreign plaintiff sues a United States-based multinational for damages resulting from an extr...
In the long history of the struggle to hold foreign corporations subject to suit at the place of the...
As an aftermath of the much publicized circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 6, 1944, owners...
This Article explores some of the problems of obtaining personal jurisdiction over a business organi...
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell), a long-running Alien Tort Statute (ATS) case brought by Nig...
For over 30 years, human rights, environmental and other plaintiffs’ attorneys have hailed foreign n...
When citizens of Ecuador sued Texaco, Inc. in a U.S. court seeking damages for oil contamination in ...
In December 1984 poisonous gas leaked out from the Bopal plant in India. Some 1700 people were kille...
When citizens of Ecuador sued Texaco, Inc. in a U.S. court seeking damages for oil contamination in ...
With the increase of foreign trade, there has also been an increase in the number of foreign manufac...
When U.S. corporations cause harm abroad, should foreign plaintiffs be allowed to sue in the United ...
The article considers the apparent disjunction between the Court\u27s effective limitation of liabil...
Increases in the amount and complexity of international trade and changes in jurisdictional rules ov...
In recent decades, some jurisdictions have shown a growing trend of private claims alleging direct l...
This article outlines the litigation against multinational corporations. Specifically, it investigat...
When a foreign plaintiff sues a United States-based multinational for damages resulting from an extr...
In the long history of the struggle to hold foreign corporations subject to suit at the place of the...
As an aftermath of the much publicized circus fire in Hartford, Connecticut, on July 6, 1944, owners...
This Article explores some of the problems of obtaining personal jurisdiction over a business organi...
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell), a long-running Alien Tort Statute (ATS) case brought by Nig...
For over 30 years, human rights, environmental and other plaintiffs’ attorneys have hailed foreign n...
When citizens of Ecuador sued Texaco, Inc. in a U.S. court seeking damages for oil contamination in ...
In December 1984 poisonous gas leaked out from the Bopal plant in India. Some 1700 people were kille...
When citizens of Ecuador sued Texaco, Inc. in a U.S. court seeking damages for oil contamination in ...
With the increase of foreign trade, there has also been an increase in the number of foreign manufac...
When U.S. corporations cause harm abroad, should foreign plaintiffs be allowed to sue in the United ...
The article considers the apparent disjunction between the Court\u27s effective limitation of liabil...
Increases in the amount and complexity of international trade and changes in jurisdictional rules ov...
In recent decades, some jurisdictions have shown a growing trend of private claims alleging direct l...