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“Plaintiff’s Diplomacy”: A Review of the Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Susan L. Karamanian
Susan L. Karamanian*
Affiliation:
for International and Comparative Legal Studies and Professorial in Law, George Washington University Law School
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 96 , 2002 , pp. 156 - 158
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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References

1 See Slaughter, Anne-Marie & Bosco, David, Plaintiff’s Diplomacy, 79 Foreign Aff. 102 (Sept./Oct 2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar [hereinafter Plaintiffs Diplomacy].

2 See, e.g., Weintraub, Russell J., International Law: Establishing Incredible Events by Credible Evidence: Civil Suits for Atrocities that Violate International Law, 62 Brook. L. Rev. 753 (1996)Google Scholar; Aceves, William, Affirming the Law of Nations in U.S. Courts: The Karadzic Litigation and the Yugoslav Conflict, 14 Berk. J. Int’l L. 137 (1996)Google Scholar; Burley, Anne-Marie, The Alien Tort Statute and the fudiciary Act of 1789: A Badge of Honor, 83 AJIL 461 (1989)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 McMenamin, Brigid, Bring Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Litigious, Forbes 180 (Nov. 15, 1999)Google Scholar; Go Global, Sue Local, the Economist (Aug. 14, 1999).

4 See, e.g., Bradley, Curtis A, The Costs of International Human Rights Litigation, 2 Chi. J. Int’l L. 457, 458 (2001)Google Scholar.

5 Plaintiff’s Diplomacy, supra note 1, at 103.

6 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980).

7 The Alien Tort Statute provides that federal district courts “shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.” 28 U.S.C. §1350 (1994).

8 Filartiga, 630 F.2d at 877.

9 See Plaintiff s Diplomacy, supra note 1, at 107.

10 Id. at 108.

11 Id.. at 110.

12 Id.

13 Id. at 103.

14 See 28 U.S.C. §1605 (West Supp. 1998).

15 See, e.g-., Flatow v. The Islamic Republic of Iran, 999 F. Supp. 1 (D.DC. 1998) (entering default judgment of more than $250 million against Iran and various Iranian officials for state-sponsored terrorism in violation of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act).

16 See Plaintiff’s Diplomacy, supra note 1, at 113.

17 Id.

18 Id.