Alien Tort Statute
After ATS Litigation: A FCPA for Human Rights?
Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Paul Stephan Mon, May 7, 2018, 7:00 AM
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Jesner v. Arab Bank, PLC further restricts federal private litigation to vindicate international human rights law, perhaps to a vanishing point. In retrospect, even Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain’s guarded endorsement of such lawsuits seems exceptional. Both Kiobel v.