Autore: Bonfanti, Angelica
Titolo: No Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Under the Alien Tort Statute: Which Forum for Disputes on Overseas Corporate Human Rights Violations after Kiobel?
Periodico: Diritti umani e diritto internazionale
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 7 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 379 - Pagina finale: 400

With its Opinion in Kiobel, the US Supreme Court denies that the ATS provides federal courtswith jurisdiction in cases brought by foreign plaintiffs complaining against foreign defendants forinternational law violations committed abroad. While rejecting extraterritorial jurisdiction over'foreign-cubed' cases, even if concerning corporate gross human rights violations, the Opinionleaves several problematic issues unsolved. This paper aims at examining them. After recalling theprevious Opinion in Sosa, and examining the presumption against extraterritoriality and the characterizationof the ATS as a domestic provision for universal civil jurisdiction, it addresses the correspondingEuropean Union's legal framework, as established by Regulations Nos 44/2001 and1215/2012, with the aim of raising the question of the ATS's residual application and the competentforum to adjudicate future disputes on overseas corporate human rights violations.




SICI: 1971-7105(2013)7:2<379:NEJUTA>2.0.ZU;2-H
Testo completo: http://www.mulino.it/download/article/10.12829/74160
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