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Mar. 1, 2009
Hoffman's Law
In the hands of attorney Paul Hoffman, an almost forgotten 18th-century law has become a powerful weapon against those who commit human rights abuses abroad. "These cases are important, Hoffman says one recent Friday in his Venice office, just above the beachside boardwalk. "They're the main vehicle in U.S. courts to hold human rights violators accountable, whether they're foreign leaders or American corporations."
For years Paul Hoffman had devoted his law career to representing the poor, the dispossessed, people who were discriminated against, and victims of abuse and torture by repressive regimes. In the early '90s, however, while serving as the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, he found himself representing a very different kind of client: a Mexican d...
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