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roundsquare · 4956 days ago · link · · parent · post: Exxon Mobil to Face Indonesia Human Rights Claims, U.S. Appeals Court Says
Well, that can't be entirely true right? What if there were a lawsuit about contract interpretation? Certainly it would make sense to use the other country's rules on this and not those in the U.S. That's part of the reason that the Alien Tort Statute is limited to things that are violations of international law i.e. a body of law that, in theory anyway, applies around the world.
"IMO one facet of progress means the dissolution of exceptionalism." Truer words. It is worth bearing in mind that very few nations actually have the ability to bring lawsuits like this. Admittedly, when the statute was passed in the 1790s it had different purposes, but it has evolved to allow aliens to sue aliens for things like torture which, I think, is progress in the right direction.