The Alien Tort Statute: In Pursuit of Corporate Accountability

A year after the Supreme Court's decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Paul Hoffman, counsel for petitioners in Kiobel, joined Marco Simons, legal director of Earth Rights International and Harvard Law School Clinical Professors Susan H. Farbstein and Tyler Giannini for the a discussion titled "The Alien Tort Statute: In Pursuit of Corporate Accountability." The event, moderated by Harvard Law School Professor Noah Feldman, was co-sponsored by the Harvard Human Rights Journal and the Human Rights Program.

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Exercising legal jurisdiction in the U.S. over matters that occurred abroad is a controversial practice.