Article Title
The Trafficking Victim Protection Act: The Best Hope for International Human Rights Litigation in the U.S. Courts?
Recommended Citation
Sara Sun Beale,
The Trafficking Victim Protection Act: The Best Hope for International Human Rights Litigation in the U.S. Courts?,
50 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L.
17
(2018)
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/jil/vol50/iss1/5
Abstract
The article focuses on uses Alien Tort Statute as a vehicle for litigating human rights abuses in both civil and criminal prosecutions in the U.S. Topics discussed include developments in International Criminal Law in addressing human rights violations; judicial attitudes that could affect the interpretation of the Trafficking Victim Protection Act; and Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain court case on the same.