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International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts. By Beth Stephens and Michael Ratner. Irvington-on-Hudson NY: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 1996. Pp. v, 362. Index. $95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Ralph G. Steinhardt
Ralph G. Steinhardt*
Affiliation:
The George Washington University Law SchoolThe Oxford/GW Programme in International Human Rights Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 91 , Issue 4 , October 1997 , pp. 755 - 757
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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1 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir. 1980) (holding that the courts of the United States have subject matter jurisdiction over a lawsuit brought by Paraguayan nationals for the recovery of damage they had suffered as the result of human rights violations committed by a Paraguayan police officer in Paraguay). The Alien Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §1350, provides that “the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.”

2 Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991, Pub. L. No. 102-256,106 Stat. 73 (codified at 28 U.S.C. §1350 note (1994)).

3 With respect to the evolution of new classes of defendants, the book includes a short, strong essay, by guest author Paul Hoffman of the California bar, about using the ATCA against U.S. defendants, including state and federal government officials, and the linkage between the ATCA and domestic nondiscrimination statutes.

4 726 F.2d 774, 798-823 (D.C. Cir. 1984), cert, denied, 470 U.S. 1003 (1985).