nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180502-203125 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180502s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180502-203125 doi eng 342 23 Teitel, Ruti Author aut Corporate Liability for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations – the US in Retreat? Teitel, Ruti Verfassungsblog 2018-05-02 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Last week, in Jesner v. Arab Bank, the United States Supreme Court decided that foreign corporations cannot be sued in federal court for human rights violations that occurred outside the US and have no substantial link to the US. The decision is the latest piece of an ongoing debate around the question: just how far can the US meddle in affairs of other countries? More pragmatically, it makes international human rights litigation - a successful counterpart to diplomatic intervention in the past - much more difficult today. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Human Rights Human Rights Litigation law of nations Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/corporate-liability-for-extraterritorial-human-rights-violations-the-us-in-retreat/ raw object