Tort Liability for Human Rights Abuses

by George P. Fletcher

Advancing a bold theory of the relevance of tort law in the fight against human rights abuses, celebrated US law professor George Fletcher here challenges the community of international lawyers to think again about how they can use the Alien Tort Statute. Beginning with an historical analysis Fletcher shows how tort and criminal law originally evolved to deal with similar problems, how tort came to be seen as primarily concerned with negligence and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841137944
• ISBN13: 9781841137940
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"