Tort liability for human rights abuses

• Main Author: Fletcher, George P.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2008.
• Subjects: United States. > Alien Tort Claims Act.; Torts (International law); Civil rights.; State action (Civil rights); Government liability > United States.; War crimes.; War (International law); Torture (International law); Electronic books.; Computer network resources.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 214 p.)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781847314635 (electronic bk.); 1847314635 (electronic bk.)

Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute. Beginning with an historical analysis Fletcher shows how tort and criminal law originally evolved to deal with similar problems, how tort came to be seen as primarily concerned with negligence and how the Alien Tort Statute has helped establish the importance of tort law in international cases. In a series of cases starting with Filartiga and.