April 23, 2009

International law/international human rights edition:

• Sensational testimony as judge digs in to alleged fraud in banana-workers' suit against Dole [Overlawyered]


• Eugene Kontorovich, The "Define and Punish" Clause and the Limits of Universal Jurisdiction [Northwestern U. L. Rev., PDF].
• Curtis Bradley, Jack Goldsmith criticize Judge Sheindlin's refusal to dismiss Alien Tort Statute case blaming western firms for apartheid [Washington Post via Volokh. More: Global Tort, Overlawyered.
  
• Controversy may heat up soon over proposed Senate ratification of CEDAW, the U.N.'s women's rights treaty [Weekly Standard, Gaylord (Mich.) Herald-Times]
• Chevron has prepared a video blasting its opponents' tactics in that dubious Ecuador Amazon Indian environmental Alien Tort suit [YouTube, related]


• Boumediene, "lawfare", Lynne Stewart, and the role of attorneys who represent terrorism defendants [Tung Yin, SSRN, via Steele, Legal Ethics Forum]
• "Five Tips to Avoid the Human Rights Litigation Trap" [Jonathan Drimmer, Corporate Counsel]
• Rosa Brooks, whose views always seemed way-Left even by the standards of legal academia, joins - the Pentagon!? [Weekly Standard, Michael Calderone/Politico]