Online Kiobel symposium: The Alien Tort Statute as a species of extraterritorial U.S. law

The following contribution to our symposium on Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum is written by Julian Ku, a Professor of Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. He is the author, with John Yoo, of Taming Globalization: International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order (Oxford University Press 2012).  [Lyle published an introduction to the issues [...]...