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- Title
The alien tort and the global rule of law.
- Authors
Teitel, Ruti
- Abstract
This paper traces the genealogy of legal developments regarding the expansion of civil jurisdiction for human rights abuses. It endeavours to illuminate the relation between these civil remedy developments in alien tort action and globalisation. It elucidates the dimensions of this development, implied by the transformations in substantive and procedural jurisdiction, as well as in legal personality, and subjectivity, reflecting upon the ways that these normative changes help to constitute global rule of law. It ends by concluding that, whatever their contribution, these transnational remedies are best conceived as complementary to the protections offered by state legal systems.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TORTS; NONCITIZENS; HUMAN rights; JURISDICTION; SOCIAL change; SOCIAL history; SOCIAL development
- Publication
International Social Science Journal, 2005, Vol 57, Issue 185, p551
- ISSN
0020-8701
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2451.2005.570.x