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An Introduction to International Law in U.S. State Courts: Extraterritoriality and “False Conflicts” of Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Anthony J. Colangelo
Anthony J. Colangelo*
Affiliation:
Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University
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Type
State Law Litigation of International Norms
Information
Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 108 , 2014 , pp. 436 - 439
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

References

1 Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S. Ct. 1659 (2013).

2 See generally Whytock, Christopher A., Childress, Donald Earl III & Ramsey, Michael D., Foreword: After Kiobel—International Human Rights Litigation in State Courts and Under State Law , 3 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 1, 5 (2013)Google Scholar.

3 See Am. Ins. Ass’n v. Garamendi, 539 U.S. 396, 413–14 (2003); Crosby v. Nat’l Foreign Trade Council, 530 U.S. 363, 373 (2000) (invalidating Massachusetts statute for obstructing the foreign policy objectives of the federal government).

4 See Colangelo, supra note *.

5 133 S. Ct. at 1665 (2013).

6 Id. at 1666 (quoting Cuba R. Co. v. Crosby, 222 U.S. 473, 479 (1912)).

7 Cuba, 222 U.S. at 479.

8 Id. at 478.

9 Id.; see also Linder v. Portocarrero, 963 F.2d 332, 336 (11th Cir. 1992) (“All of the authorities agree that torture and summary execution—the torture and killing of wounded non-combatant civilians—are acts that are viewed with universal abhorrence.”).