Supreme Court rules against extraterritorial application of Alien Tort Statute
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum that nothing in the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 (ATS) rebuts the US presumption against extraterritoriality and that suits...
Dutch court finds Shell subsidiary liable to Nigerian farmer for oil pollution
The Dutch District Court of The Hague ruled Wednesday that a subsidiary of Shell could be held liable to one farmer for damages resulting from polluting the Niger Delta region in southern Nigeria. However, the...
More than 140 nations gathered in Geneva for a UN forum agreed on Saturday to a legally binding treaty addressing the use of mercury, a metal that is infamous for its detrimental effects on health and the...
Four Nigerian residents and an advocacy group told a Dutch court on Thursday that Shell should be held liable for damage from oil pollution in the Niger Delta. The suit, which was filed...
Supreme Court rehears arguments in corporate liability case from last term
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases on Monday. In Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. , the court heard new arguments on whether three oil companies are...
A coalition of environmental protection organizations sued the US Department of the Interior , Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and other officials on Tuesday in an effort to block offshore oil drilling by Royal Dutch Shell [corporate...
The Local and International Plight of Workers' Rights in Nicaragua
JURIST Senior Editor Kimberly Bennett, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Class of 2014, posits that human rights violations taking place in rural, economically disadvantaged communities are most likely to be reconciled through the harmonization of corporations and the locality...
The Supremacy Clause and International Law: A Response to Jordan Paust
JURIST Guest Columnist David Moore of the Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School says that although the Supremacy Clause binds states to follow international law that qualifies as preemptive federal law, not all treaties or principles of customary...
Obama administration urges Supreme Court to limit corporate liability for torture overseas
The Obama administration on Thursday filed a brief in the US Supreme Court asking the justices to limit corporate liability for human rights violations occurring overseas. The government argued that the court should dismiss the...
