UNCITRAL: A Legislative Guide to Privately Financed Infrastructure Projects
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
In September, 1999, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) - the core legal body of th.
The World Gets a Little Smaller; International Employers May Find Themselves Sued in the U.S. for Egregious Overseas Labor Practices
Kenneth J. Rose of Littler Mendelson, P.C.
Over the past 25 years, a number of federal courts found that the Alien Tort Claims Act ("ATCA") permitted foreign victims to sue for such violations of international law as summary executions, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Some of those lawsuits were brought against U.S.-headquartered multinational corporations for their alleged involvement in improper and abusive labor practices in developing countries that were said to comprise human rights violations.
Domestic Courts and Growing NGO Investment in "International Law": At What Cost and Consequence to Democracy?
Donald J. Kochan*
Increasingly, United States courts are recognizing various treaties, as well as declarations, proclamations, conventions, resolutions, programmes, protocols, and similar forms of inter- or multi-national "legislation" as evidence of a body of "customary international law" enforceable in domestic courts, particularly in the area of tort liability.
BVI Continues to Dominate International Company Formations
O'Neal, Webster, O'Neal, Myers, Fletcher & Gordon
The annual international company incorporation survey for 1997 conducted by the Offshore Investment magazine shows .