| Description |
xliii, 731 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction to Torture as Tort: From Susan to Canada to Somalia / Craig Scott -- 2. Translating Torture into Transnational Tort: Conceptual Divides in the Debate on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Harms / Craig Scott -- 3. International Human Rights Tort Claims and the Experience of United States Courts: An Introduction to the US Case Law, Key Statutes and Doctrines / Michael Swan -- 4. Taking Filartiga on the Road: Why Courts Outside the United States Should Accept Jurisdiction Over Actions Involving Torture Committed Abroad / John Terry -- 5. Torture: Prevention versus Punishment? / Malcolm Evans and Rod Morgan -- 6. Taking Jurisdiction in Transnational Human Rights Tort Litigation: University Jurisdiction's Relationship to Ex Juris Service, Forum Non Conveniens and the Presumption of Territoriality / Anne C. McConville -- 7. Geographies of Injustice: Human Rights at the Altar of Convenience / Upendra Baxi -- 8. The Commercial Activity Exception to Sovereign Immunity and the Boundaries of Contemporary International Legalism / Robert Wai -- 9. In Search of a Defence of the Transnational Human Rights Paradigm: May Jus Cogens Norms Be Invoked to Create Implied Exceptions in Domestic State Immunity Statutes? / Wendy Adams -- 10. Impunity and the United Nations Convention against Torture: A Shadow Play Without an Ending? / Peter Burns and Sean McBurney -- 11. Torture, Tort Choice of Law, and Tolofson / Jennifer A. Orange -- 12. Characterisation, Choice of Law, and Human Rights / Graham Virgo -- 13. The Emperor's New Clothes: Defabricating the Myth of "Act of State" in Anglo-Canadian Law / Martin Buhler -- 14. Grounding a Cause of Action for Torture in Transnational Law / Sandra Raponi -- 15. International Human Rights Law and the Tort of Torture: What Possibility for Canada? / Edward M. Hyland -- 16. Holding Leaders Liable for Torture by Others: Command Responsibility and Respondeat Superior as Frameworks for Derivative Civil Liability / Valerie Ooster Veld and Alejandra Flah -- 17. Responsibility and Liability for Violations of Human Rights in the Course of UN Field Operations / Chanaka Wickremasinghe and Guglielmo Verdirame -- 18. Linking State Responsibility for Certain Harms Caused by Corporate Nationals Abroad to Civil Recourse in the Legal Systems of Home States / Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah -- 19. Revisiting Human Rights in the Private Sphere: Using the European Convention on Human Rights to Protect the Right of Access to the Civil Courts / Andrew Clapham -- 20. Civil Remedies for Torture Committed Abroad: An Obligation under the Convention against Torture? / Andrew Byrnes -- 21. Doing the Right Thing? Foreign Tort Law and Human Rights / Jan Klabbers -- 22. Just Amnesty and Private International Law / Jennifer Llewellyn -- 23. Cultural Challenges: Injunctions in Australian Courts and the Right to Demand the Death Penalty under Saudi Arabian Law / Belinda Wells and Michael Burnett -- 24. Israel and the Recognition of Torture: Domestic and International Aspects / Amnon Reichaman and Tsvi Kahana -- 25. An Uncivil Action: The Tort of Torture and Cosmopolitan Private Law / Mayo Moran -- 26. Private Law, Constitutionalism and the Limits of the Judicial Role / Oliver Gerstenberg -- App. 1. UN Convention against Torture -- App. 2. United States Legislation: Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Victim Protection Act -- App. 3. UK Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act -- App. 4. Revisiting Human Rights in the Private Sphere, Postscript: Developments Related to Pinochet as of January 2001 / Andrew Clapham |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Torture.
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Human rights.
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Conflict of laws.
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International law.
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| Author |
Scott, Craig (Craig M.)
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| ISBN |
1841130605 |
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