Perspective
Nov. 9, 2011
The Alien Tort Statute: A powerful weapon against corporations engaged in war crimes
The 9th Circuit joins other circuits in holding corporations potentially accountable for war crimes. By Richard Kellner and Scott Malzahn of Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP
The 20th century experienced a proliferation of genocides, from attempts to wipe out entire ethnic populations in the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust and Bosnia, to the calculated killings of civilian populations in Darfur and Cambodia. Under the Alien Tort Statute, federal courts have "original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the ...
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