Preliminaries; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction to Torture as Tort From Sudan to Canada to Somalia; 2 Translating Torture into Transnational Tort Conceptual Divides in the Debate on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Harms; 3 International Human Rights Tort Claims and the Experience of United States Courts An Introduction to the US Case Law Key Statutes and Doctrines; 4 Taking Filártiga on the Road Why Courts Outside the United States Should Accept Jurisdiction Over Actions Involving Torture Committed Abroad; 5 Torture Prevention versus Punishment
Summary
Should it be possible for a victim of a human rights violation in one country to bring a private law claim against the alleged perpetrators in the courts of another country? This text presents a collection of essays which address this question
