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27 Mar The ATS and Extraterritoriality, Part II: Universal Civil Jurisdiction and Choice of Law
[Anthony J. Colangelo is an Assistant Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law] I summarized in a previous post my arguments that the presumption against extraterritoriality should not apply to the ATS to the extent courts use international law incorporated into U.S. common law as the rule of decision. The presumption was raised explicitly by the brief of the UK and Dutch Governments in Kiobel and will likely be raised again. This post addresses three discrete but related issues that may arise going forward: 1. Whether the ATS’s...15 Mar YLS Sale Symposium: Sale’s Legacy– “Creative Legal Thinking” and Dynamic Interpretation of Refugee Law
...could hardly have been foreseen when the 1951 Refugee Convention was drafted. The US interdiction program in the 1990s constitutes a prime example. By geographically shifting migration control to block Haitian refugees on the high seas, it was argued that neither US nor international law applied. The majority of the Supreme Court in Sale not only upheld the government’s claim, it set off a proliferation of extraterritorial migration control practices. High sea interdiction programmes have since been introduced both in the Mediterranean and the Pacific. Migration control has further become...28 Mar The “American Tort” Interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute
...district courts for money damages in the event of harm to their persons or property when the United States had expressly or implicitly promised the aliens that no such harm would come to them. The ATS both provides a right of action and original jurisdiction in federal district court to aliens injured under circumstances implicating U.S. sovereign responsibility; it is therefore a federal law for purposes of Article III arising-under jurisdiction. Translated to a modern context, the ATS would plausibly be available to “extraterritorial” tort actions by alien detainees at...01 Dec Milanovic Book Symposium
Opinio Juris and EJIL: Talk! are happy to announce that over the next few days we will both be hosting a discussion of Marko Milanovic’s recently published book: Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties: Law, Principles and Policy (Oxford Univ Press). Marko’s book examines the question when a State owes human rights obligations under a treaty to persons located outside its territory. This is a question on which there has been conflicting case law and much confusion. This [book] attempts to clear up some of this confusion, and expose its...06 Sep Targeted Killing Away from the Battlefield: A Response to Ken
...arbitrarily limited in this way, then it invites combatants to use territory outside of the “armed conflict” as a haven. Under some circumstances, for diplomatic or other political reasons, a state might choose not to attack even though participants are taking haven, but the reason is not a matter of the law of war jus in bello. To begin with, this is a caricature of Melzer’s position. He does not claim that combatants can be lawfully targeted only when they are on the battlefield; his discussion of the extraterritorial reach...28 Jul Preliminary thoughts on the posts
...sovereignty as much as a necessary feature of sovereignty—something inherent in the Westphalian system. Bill’s second point builds on his own expertise on statutory extraterritoriality, and I certainly defer to him on the particulars here. He thinks I overstate the motivating role of leveling the playing field for American firms, and slight both the role of consumers and the ways that extraterritorial application sometimes harmed American firms, as in the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. I agree that leveling was not the only factor. I also agree that the FCPA is...23 Apr Kiobel Insta-Symposium: Piracy – Not Just Kiobel’s Analogy
short of authorizing the prosecution of acts of piracy or armed robbery in Somalia’s territorial waters. Notwithstanding these provisos, the interest in preventing “unintended clashes between our laws and those of other nations which could result in international discord” (Morrison) that lies at the heart of the presumption against extraterritoriality, is greatly diminished in these piracy cases. Justice Kennedy notes in his concurrence in Kiobel that in disputes not involving solely extraterritorial conduct, “the proper implementation of the presumption against extraterritorial application may require some further elaboration and explanation.” Although...
28 Oct Fourth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Jurisdiction in Star Wars Andor – TWAIL Perspectives and Current Lessons . . . for a galaxy NOT so far away . . .
[Ernesto Hernández-López , is a Professor of Law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University, in California, United States. He writes about international trade, extraterritoriality, and law and culture. @ProfeErnesto1] The Star Wars universe takes place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…,” as it says in the opening screen of the movies. Since they began, the films use international law to emphasize conflict. The first released movie, A New Hope (1977), starts with a captain screaming we are “a consular ship” “on a diplomatic mission,” as he...
15 Mar Polish-Lithuanian-Belarusian Border Crisis and Ius ad Bellum Part II
...the above-mentioned principles of international law: Unauthorized intrusion of airspace by aircraft; Unauthorized crossing of borders by the military forces; Extraterritorial enforcement of jurisdiction (for example, the Eichmann case); Unauthorized covert intelligence operations (for example, the “Rainbow Warrior” incident) Any unauthorized intervention in state internal affairs; The principle of territorial integrity also contains a specific rule regarding the border itself: the inviolability of frontiers. The rule has been elaborated in multiple documents, especially in those relating to the European and post-Soviet context such as: the Helsinki Final Act of 1975...