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Justice across borders : the struggle for human rights in U.S. courts /

This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in federal courts. In 1980, a federal appeals court ruled that a Paraguayan family could sue a Paraguayan official under the Alien Tort Statute - a dormant provision of the 1789 Judiciary Act - for torture committed in Paraguay...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davis, Jeffrey, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
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