Corporations and human rights (Record no. 83540)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9783631584187
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Classification number 341.481 BEI
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Personal name "Beisinghoff, Niels"
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Title Corporations and human rights
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Berlin
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Peter Lang
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2008
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Extent 326p.
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Summary, etc. This work analyses different enforcement mechanisms. It examines one of the most powerful instruments: the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) litigation in the United States. The ATCA has been used as one of the chief weapons in a 21st-century battle over corporate responsibility in the age of globalization. For instance, the ATCA has been invoked to seek compensation from German companies in respect of forced labor during the Holocaust. Further examples include claims relating to genocide against a Canadian company, forced labor claims against a US company and numerous others. The ATCA litigation often refers to the «law of nations», but do the US courts interpret this term consistently with other accepted interpretations of international law? The short answer to that question is 'no'. However, in the absence of enforceable international law mechanisms, this lacuna needs to be filled. Domestic litigation of matters that are inherently transnational in character, as occurs in ATCA human rights litigation, represents a viable mechanism to enforce human rights.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Alien Tort Statute (ATS) Act-Germany
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  Not Missing Not Damaged   Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library   2020-02-04   341.481 BEI 99552 2020-02-04 2020-02-04 Books

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