Maya Steinitz

The Case for an International Court of Civil Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An International Court of Civil Justice would give victims of multinationals a day in court while offering corporate defendants a cheaper, fairer litigation alternative.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781107162853
• ISBN-10: 1107162858
• Artikelnr.: 50205194

Autorenporträt

Maya Steinitz is a Professor and Bouma Family Fellow in Law at the University of Iowa College of Law and has taught courses at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She served as a litigator in one of the nation's top law firms, Latham & Watkins LLP, and clerked for the Honourable E. Hayut, currently Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court. Steinitz led the representation of the government of Southern Sudan in drafting its national and sub-national constitutions and regularly serves as an arbitrator, expert, and counsel in international and domestic arbitrations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. How new international courts come into being
2. The stories behind the cases: the Bhopal disaster, the devastation of the Ecuadorian Amazon, and the abuse and murder of Dr Kiobel
3. The problem of the missing forum
4. The business case for the ICCJ
5. Institutional and procedural features of an ICCJ
Conclusion.