Free Burma : Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability /

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When the military's ruling party violently quashed Burma's pro-democracy movement, diplomatic condemnation quickly followed--to little effect. But when Burma's activists began linking the movement to others around the world, the result was dramatically different. This book is the firs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dale, John G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Alien Tort Claims Act.
Alien Tort Claims Act (United States)
Politics and government
International law.
Diplomatic relations > Law and legislation.
Diplomatic relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
LAW > International.
United States.
Burma.
Birmanie > Relations exterieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations exterieures > Birmanie.
Burma > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Burma.
Burma > Politics and government > 1988-
Burma > International status.
United States > Foreign relations > Law and legislation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Burma's struggle for democracy and human rights before 1988
  • Locating power in the free Burma movement
  • Free Burma laws : legislating transnational sanctions
  • Corporate "death penalty" : executing charter revocation
  • Alien tort claims : adjudicating human rights abuses abroad.

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