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Remarks by Eric A. Posner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Eric A. Posner
Eric A. Posner*
Affiliation:
Kirkland & Ellis of Law, University of Chicago Law School
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The Alien Tort Claims Act Under Attack
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 98 , 2004 , pp. 56 - 58
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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* For a discussion, see Posner, Eric A. and Vermeide, Adrian, Transitional Justice as Ordinary Justice, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 761 (2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

1 Letter from Minister Penuell M. Maduna to Judge John E. Sprizzo, Exh. 1 (Sept. 11, 2003) (quoted in the Brief for the United States in Sosa v. Alverez-Machain, No. 03-339, at 26 n.9, available at <http://www.usdoj.gov/osg/briefs/2003/0responses/2003-0339.resp.pdf>).

2 For an argument that courts enforcing the ATCA should respect amnesties when they are “just” but not otherwise, see Llewellyn, Jennifer, Just Amnesty and Private International Law, in Torture As Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Tort Litigation 567 (Scott, Craig ed. 2001)Google Scholar. I see no reason to think that courts, rather than the executive branch, should make this judgment.