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Transnational corporate responsibility in domestic courts: Still out of reach?

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jats:pDespite some modest progress, corporate responsibility for human rights abuses in domestic courts remains elusive. In U.S. federal courts, Alien Tort Statute (ATS) litigation is now more precarious than ever before. While there have been some potentially important developments in English courts, judges are reluctant to extend responsibility to parent corporations for harm caused by the operations of foreign subsidiaries. Although U.S. and English courts have been concerned with distinct doctrinal issues, the overall picture appears to be one of deference to the corporation and its anatomized form, and to the goal of promoting investment abroad.</jats:p>

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48 Law and Legal Studies, 4807 Public Law

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AJIL Unbound

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Journal ISSN

2398-7723
2398-7723

Volume Title

113

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Cambridge University Press (CUP)