List of Contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

1

Introduction to Torture as Tort: From Susan to Canada to Somalia / Craig Scott

3

2

Translating Torture into Transnational Tort: Conceptual Divides in the Debate on Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Harms / Craig Scott

45

3

International Human Rights Tort Claims and the Experience of United States Courts: An Introduction to the US Case Law, Key Statutes and Doctrines / Michael Swan

65

4

Taking Filartiga on the Road: Why Courts Outside the United States Should Accept Jurisdiction Over Actions Involving Torture Committed Abroad / John Terry

109

5

Torture: Prevention versus Punishment? / Malcolm Evans Rod Morgan

135

6

Taking Jurisdiction in Transnational Human Rights Tort Litigation: University Jurisdiction's Relationship to Ex Juris Service, Forum Non Conveniens and the Presumption of Territoriality / Anne C. McConville

157

7

Geographies of Injustice: Human Rights at the Altar of Convenience / Upendra Baxi

197

8

The Commercial Activity Exception to Sovereign Immunity and the Boundaries of Contemporary International Legalism / Robert Wai

213

9

In Search of a Defence of the Transnational Human Rights Paradigm: May Jus Cogens Norms Be Invoked to Create Implied Exceptions in Domestic State Immunity Statutes? / Wendy Adams

247

10

Impunity and the United Nations Convention against Torture: A Shadow Play Without an Ending? / Peter Burns Sean McBurney

275

11

Torture, Tort Choice of Law, and Tolofson / Jennifer A. Orange

291

12

Characterisation, Choice of Law, and Human Rights / Graham Virgo

325

13

The Emperor's New Clothes: Defabricating the Myth of "Act of State" in Anglo-Canadian Law / Martin Buhler

343

14

Grounding a Cause of Action for Torture in Transnational Law / Sandra Raponi

373

15

International Human Rights Law and the Tort of Torture: What Possibility for Canada? / Edward M. Hyland

401

16

Holding Leaders Liable for Torture by Others: Command Responsibility and Respondeat Superior as Frameworks for Derivative Civil Liability / Valerie Ooster Veld Alejandra Flah

441

17

Responsibility and Liability for Violations of Human Rights in the Course of UN Field Operations / Chanaka Wickremasinghe Guglielmo Verdirame

465

18

Linking State Responsibility for Certain Harms Caused by Corporate Nationals Abroad to Civil Recourse in the Legal Systems of Home States / Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

491

19

Revisiting Human Rights in the Private Sphere: Using the European Convention on Human Rights to Protect the Right of Access to the Civil Courts / Andrew Clapham

513

20

Civil Remedies for Torture Committed Abroad: An Obligation under the Convention against Torture? / Andrew Byrnes

537

21

Doing the Right Thing? Foreign Tort Law and Human Rights / Jan Klabbers

553

22

Just Amnesty and Private International Law / Jennifer Llewellyn

567

23

Cultural Challenges: Injunctions in Australian Courts and the Right to Demand the Death Penalty under Saudi Arabian Law / Belinda Wells Michael Burnett

601

24

Israel and the Recognition of Torture: Domestic and International Aspects / Amnon Reichaman Tsvi Kahana

631

25

An Uncivil Action: The Tort of Torture and Cosmopolitan Private Law / Mayo Moran

661

26

Private Law, Constitutionalism and the Limits of the Judicial Role / Oliver Gerstenberg

687

App. 1

UN Convention against Torture

705

App. 2

United States Legislation: Alien Tort Claims Act and Torture Victim Protection Act

711

App. 3

UK Private International Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act

713

App. 4

Revisiting Human Rights in the Private Sphere, Postscript: Developments Related to Pinochet as of January 2001 / Andrew Clapham

717

Index

725