Abstract The Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh (the Accord) is generally
seen as a positive development in ensuring that Bangladeshi garment industry workers …

The sands of corporate criminal liability for atrocities are shifting. Demands for corporate
accountability have risen significantly over the last decades and have manifested …

It is widely claimed that the level of transnational litigation in US courts is high and
increasing, primarily due to forum shopping by foreign plaintiffs. This “transnational forum …

Should US courts provide remedies to victims of international human rights violations?
International and regional human rights bodies have limited capacity to do so. 1 For this …

This article revisits the relationship between law and international order. Building on legal
research concerned with transnational law, we argue that domestic courts are endogenous …

The lower federal courts have been invoking" international comity abstention" to solve a
range of problems in cross-border cases, using a wide array of tests that vary not just across …

ABSTRACT The Alien Tort Statute (ATS), enacted in 1789 as part of the first Judiciary Act,
provides that"[the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien …

In November 2013, Swiss authorities announced a criminal investigation into one of the
world's largest gold refineries on the basis that the company committed a war crime. The …

Just how long is the" long arm" of US law? When Congress passes a law, does the law
screech to a stop at the US border? Or does the law leapfrog abroad to regulate or penalize …

This Article explores the legalization characteristics of the investment rules of the
Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Measured against orthodox and external …