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International Human Rights in the Supreme Court 2021

By humanrightsathome

For those of you who may have missed the Washington Foreign Law Society, the American Society of International Law, and the ABA International Law Section‘s virtual event International Human Rights in the Supreme Court: 2021 Term on Wednesday, May 12th, 2021, a recording of the event is available on youtube here.   

A panel of scholars and journalists (Lori Fisler Damrosch, Columbia Law, Thomas Lee, Fordham Law, and Robert Barnes, Washington Post) critiqued recent Supreme Court decisions, including a case defining the claims that may be brought under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and the Alien Tort Statute involving human rights violations in foreign states. Also discussed were two decisions that will be issued soon in ATS cases brought against U.S. corporations alleging use of child slavery in cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast.