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Tort liability for human rights abuses /
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 Fletch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Portland, Or. :
Hart Pub.,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847314635 1847314635 128204852X 9781282048522 9786612048524 6612048522 9781472564535 1472564537 9781847317964 1847317960 |
| Acceso: | Legal Deposit; |