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Introduction: The Path to Sosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Martin S. Flaherty
Martin S. Flaherty*
Affiliation:
Fordham Law School; Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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Customary International Law as Federal Law After Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 101 , 2007 , pp. 261 - 264
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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References

1 542 U.S. 692 (2004).

2 28 U.S.C. sec. 1350.

3 ITT v. Vencap, Ltd., 519 F.2d 1001, 1015 (2d Cir. 1975).

4 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980).

5 Kadic v. Karadzic, 70 F.3d 232 (2d Cir. 1995).

6 Doe v. Unocal Corp., 395 F.3d 978 (9th Cir. 2003).

7 Tel-Oren v. Libyan Arab Republic, 726 F.2d 774, 798 (D.C. Cir. 1984) (Bork, J., concurring).

8 United States v. Alvarez-Machain, 504 U.S. 655 (1992).

9 Sosa, 524 U.S. at 724.

10 Id. at 725.

11 Id.

12 See, e.g., Bradley, Curtis A. & Goldsmith, Jack N. The Current Illegitimacy of Human Rights Litigation, 66 Fordham L. Rev. 319 (1997)Google Scholar (arguing that modern international human rights litigation is unauthorized).

13 Sosa, 542 U.S. at 725-28.

14 Id. at 738.

15 376 U.S. 398 (1964).

16 Id. at 729, n.18.

17 See id. at 732-33.