Add to ORKGIn human rights litigation, there are no formal standards to guide lawyers and their clients when they are considering whether to settle a case. Moreover, there is a paucity of published data on human rights settlements. This Article provides a quantitative assessment of recorded settlements in human rights cases litigated under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act. It examines both confidential and public settlements. It then considers how and why these cases settled. Finally, this Article proposes a set of standards for assessing proposed settlements. When cases involve fundamental rights and individuals have suffered immeasurable harms, litigants, lawyers, and judges should know whether the costs of settlement are wo...
Litigation in domestic courts is only one of many ways to promote and protect international human ri...
The brief symposium contribution explores human rights litigation in U.S. state courts under state l...
For decades since the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ landmark decision in Filartiga v. Pena-Irala,...
In human rights litigation, there are no formal standards to guide lawyers and their clients when t...
This Article begins from the premise that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) no longer serves a useful pur...
In the past few decades, human rights courts have been widely established around the world, sparking...
International human rights litigation in US courts largely began in 1980, with the Second Circuit\u2...
Judge Kaufman held in a 1980 decision that a non-US citizen could file civil suits in the U.S. for h...
Over the past three and a half decades, hundreds of transnational human rights civil suits—i.e., sui...
Historically, international law consisted primarily of substantive norms, leaving it to individual n...
During the last quarter of a century, litigation in United States courts to address hum...
It has been twenty years since the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its landmark de...
This chapter discusses problems of legal fragmentation of international investment law and human rig...
The legal profession has a longstanding history of promoting and protecting human rights. Many right...
The presumption that courts are the principal forum for dispute resolution continues to be eroded. A...
Litigation in domestic courts is only one of many ways to promote and protect international human ri...
The brief symposium contribution explores human rights litigation in U.S. state courts under state l...
For decades since the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ landmark decision in Filartiga v. Pena-Irala,...
In human rights litigation, there are no formal standards to guide lawyers and their clients when t...
This Article begins from the premise that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) no longer serves a useful pur...
In the past few decades, human rights courts have been widely established around the world, sparking...
International human rights litigation in US courts largely began in 1980, with the Second Circuit\u2...
Judge Kaufman held in a 1980 decision that a non-US citizen could file civil suits in the U.S. for h...
Over the past three and a half decades, hundreds of transnational human rights civil suits—i.e., sui...
Historically, international law consisted primarily of substantive norms, leaving it to individual n...
During the last quarter of a century, litigation in United States courts to address hum...
It has been twenty years since the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its landmark de...
This chapter discusses problems of legal fragmentation of international investment law and human rig...
The legal profession has a longstanding history of promoting and protecting human rights. Many right...
The presumption that courts are the principal forum for dispute resolution continues to be eroded. A...
Litigation in domestic courts is only one of many ways to promote and protect international human ri...
The brief symposium contribution explores human rights litigation in U.S. state courts under state l...
For decades since the Second Circuit Court of Appeals’ landmark decision in Filartiga v. Pena-Irala,...