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Remarks by Pamela Bookman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 December 2019

Pamela Bookman*
Affiliation:
Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Extract

I am here to represent the corporate perspective. In my remarks, I would like to discuss three questions. First, how are companies reacting to this litigation in Europe? Second, what are the implications for jurisdiction and notions of judicial imperialism? And third, what effects might Brexit have on this litigation?

Type
Fourth Annual Detlev F. Vagts Roundtable on Transnational Law: Corporate Liability for Human Rights Violations after Jesner v. Arab Bank
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 See, e.g., Hannah L. Buxbaum, Transnational Regulatory Litigation, 46 Va. J. Int'l L. 251, 304 (2006) (discussing allegations of judicial imperialism in different contexts); Robert Bork, Op-Ed., Judicial Imperialism, Wall St. J., June 17, 2003, at A16.

2 Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. 117 (2014).

3 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 569 U.S. 108 (2013); Jesner v. Arab Bank, 138 S. Ct. 1386 (2018).