Dec 1, 2018 | Alicia Pitts, Alien Tort Statute, Comment, Conflict of Laws
By Alicia Pitts Abstract For decades, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) has played a valuable role in human rights litigation in U.S. courts. However, in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has limited the ATS’s effectiveness in a number of respects. In response to these...
Jun 1, 2018 | Alicia Pitts, Case Note, Jurisdiction
By Alicia Pitts Abstract In Adhikari v. Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., the Fifth Circuit issued the latest edition in a series of circuit court decisions that adopted a restrictive “location of the conduct” formulation for the test used to evaluate the Alien Tort...
