{"id":7436,"date":"2014-08-31T05:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2014-11-06T12:17:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:17:23","slug":"online_55_kirshner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/2014\/08\/online_55_kirshner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Role of the European Convention on Human Rights in the Wake of Kiobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co.<\/i> has generated concerns that a governance gap will emerge for corporations that propagate human rights violations abroad. In <i>Kiobel, <\/i>the U.S. Supreme Court barred most \u201ccase[s] seeking relief for violations of the law of nations occurring outside the United States.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> The U.S. had previously offered victims straightforward access to justice in its courts.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a>\u00a0 As American courts grow less open to extraterritorial claims, recognition of the global context gains importance. The current climate presents opportunities for other judicial systems to step forward. Specifically, <i>Kiobel<\/i> has provided the European Court of Human Rights with the occasion to interpret the European Convention on Human Rights <a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn3\">[3]<\/a> to require the right to an extraterritorial forum and counterbalance the shift in the U.S. that <i>Kiobel<\/i> represents.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.law.harvard.edu\/ilj\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/84\/2014\/10\/HILJ-Online_55_Kirshner.pdf\">Read full article (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S. Ct. 1659, 1669 (2013).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a> <i>See <\/i>28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1350 (amended 2012) and its interpretation in, for example, <em>Abdullahi v. Pfizer, Inc.<\/em>, 562 F.3d 163, 172\u201374 (2d Cir. 2009); Bodner v. Banque Paribas, 114 F. Supp. 2d 117, 128 (E.D.N.Y. 2000).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a> European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Nov. 4, 1950, 213 U.N.T.S. 221, [hereinafter ECHR] (entered into force Sept. 3, 1953) (as amended by Protocols Nos. 11 and 14, which entered into force on Nov. 1, 1998 and June 1, 2010, respectively).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. has generated concerns that a governance gap will emerge for corporations that propagate human rights violations abroad. The current climate presents opportunities for other judicial systems to step forward.  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