The Global Lawyer
The Global Lawyer: Will Canada be the Global Backstop for U.S. Courts?
After the U.S. courts stopped policing global securities fraud, Canada became a global class action haven. Now the U.S. courts seem on the verge of abandoning their global oversight of corporate human rights offenses. Will Canada again step into the breach?
The Global Lawyer: Anglo American in Sights of Anglo-American Plaintiffs Lawyers
However a shifting international alliance of lawyers fare with their claims against the mining conglomerate Anglo American, the cases are testing the viability of corporate human rights claims in two key common-law jurisdictions.
The Global Lawyer: The Perils of State Human Rights Litigation
Whatever happens to the federal Alien Tort Statute in Kiobel v. Shell, corporations can still be sued for alleged human rights violations under state law. When those state claims arrive, of course, defense lawyers will still try to eviscerate them--and they've got a formidable legal arsenal at their disposal.
The Global Lawyer: Human Rights Plaintiffs Can't Even Pick Their Poison
Could anything be worse for alien tort claimants than arguing before a hostile Supreme Court on corporate liability, as the plaintiffs in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Shell did last month? Yes: arguing before a hostile Supreme Court on extraterritoriality, as those plaintiffs will have to do next term, thanks to a surprise procedural order on March 5.
The Global Lawyer: Global Class Actions After Morrison
The Global Lawyer last examined the broad impact of Morrison v. National Australia Bank in the U.S. federal courts, and the limited prospects for state law workarounds for world-spanning securities claims. Where else in the world might global securities class actions be filed? And could an international treaty someday govern them?
The Global Lawyer: Where the Second Circuit Leaves Chevron
The Second Circuit issued a sweeping rejection of Chevron's attempt to use a New York federal court to halt worldwide enforcement of an $18 billion Ecuadorian judgment on Thursday, just as international arbitrators backed Chevron in its efforts to block the Ecuadorian government from acting to enforce the award. The Second Circuit's ruling places the arbitrators center stage--and raises questions about the limits of arbitral power.
