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Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization. By Daniel E. Lee and Elizabeth J. Lee. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 280 pages.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 March 2016
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- Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 48 , 2011 , pp. 594 - 607
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- Copyright © The Canadian Council on International Law / Conseil Canadien de Droit International, representing the Board of Editors, Canadian Yearbook of International Law / Comité de Rédaction, Annuaire Canadien de Droit International 2011
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1 Lee, Daniel E and Lee, Elizabeth J, Human Rights and the Ethics of Globalization (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Ibid at xiv.
3 Aliens Tort Claim Act, 28 USC §1350 [ATCA].
4 Lee and Lee, supra note 1 at 230.
5 Ibid at 231.
6 Ibid at 243.
7 Ibid at 244.
8 Ibid at 245.
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16 Ibid.
17 Ibid at 46.
18 Ibid at 44–45.
19 Ibid at 46.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid at 18.
23 Ibid at 31 .
24 Ibid at 55–56 and 181 .
25 Ibid at 56.
26 Ibid at 30.
27 Ibid at 32–33.
28 Ibid.
29 Ibid at 58.
30 Ibid.
31 Ibid at 61 .
32 See, eg, Peerenboom, Randall “Assessing Human Rights in China: Why the Double Standard?” (2005) 38 Cornell Int’l LJ 71.Google Scholar
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34 Lee and Lee, supra note 1 at 108.
35 Ibid at 74.
36 Ibid.
37 Ibid at 74–75.
38 Ibid at 77 (Lee and Lee refer to the Critique of Pure Reason, Doc. A807/B835).
39 Immanuel Kant, “On the Common Saying: ‘This May Be True in Theory, but It Does Not Apply in Practice,’” in Reiss, Hans Siegbert ed, Kant:Political Writings, 2nd edition, translated by Hugh Barr Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) at 61 and 89.Google Scholar
40 See Larocque, supra note 9 at 27–40, for a full consideration of these justifications for the ATCA.
41 Lee and Lee, supra note 1 at 210.
42 Larocque, supra note 9 at 52.
43 Ibid at 68.
44 Lee and Lee, supra note 1 at 219.
45 Ibid at 113.
46 Ibid at 136.