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...
As a result of the Supreme Court’s increasingly restrictive reading of the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”...
The article focuses on uses Alien Tort Statute as a vehicle for litigating human rights abuses in bo...
The brief symposium contribution explores human rights litigation in U.S. state courts under state l...
In human rights litigation, there are no formal standards to guide lawyers and their clients when t...
During the last quarter of a century, litigation in United States courts to address hum...
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...
It has been said that Fildrtiga v. Peha-Irala is the Brown v. Board of Education of human rights lit...
Historically, international law consisted primarily of substantive norms, leaving it to individual n...
Over the past three and a half decades, hundreds of transnational human rights civil suits—i.e., sui...
Human rights are a serious matter. Unfortunately, in spite of half a century of improving the civil ...
Judge Kaufman held in a 1980 decision that a non-US citizen could file civil suits in the U.S. for h...
International human rights litigation in US courts largely began in 1980, with the Second Circuit\u2...
I argue in this article that no reasonable basis exists to justify federal courts refusing to consid...
This article provides a substantive discussion of international human rights law and how it can be u...
As a result of the Supreme Court’s increasingly restrictive reading of the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”...
The article focuses on uses Alien Tort Statute as a vehicle for litigating human rights abuses in bo...
The brief symposium contribution explores human rights litigation in U.S. state courts under state l...
In human rights litigation, there are no formal standards to guide lawyers and their clients when t...
During the last quarter of a century, litigation in United States courts to address hum...
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...
It has been said that Fildrtiga v. Peha-Irala is the Brown v. Board of Education of human rights lit...
Historically, international law consisted primarily of substantive norms, leaving it to individual n...
Over the past three and a half decades, hundreds of transnational human rights civil suits—i.e., sui...
Human rights are a serious matter. Unfortunately, in spite of half a century of improving the civil ...
Judge Kaufman held in a 1980 decision that a non-US citizen could file civil suits in the U.S. for h...
International human rights litigation in US courts largely began in 1980, with the Second Circuit\u2...
I argue in this article that no reasonable basis exists to justify federal courts refusing to consid...
This article provides a substantive discussion of international human rights law and how it can be u...
As a result of the Supreme Court’s increasingly restrictive reading of the Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”...
The article focuses on uses Alien Tort Statute as a vehicle for litigating human rights abuses in bo...
The brief symposium contribution explores human rights litigation in U.S. state courts under state l...