Format:
xiv, 241 Seiten
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781107162853
Content:
"When multinational corporations cause mass harms to lives, livelihoods, and the environment in developing countries, it is nearly impossible for victims to find a court that can and will issue an enforceable judgment. In this work, Professor Maya Steinitz presents a detailed rationale for the creation of an International Court of Civil Justice (ICCJ) to hear such transnational mass tort cases. The world's legal systems were not designed to solve these kinds of complex transnational disputes, and the absence of mechanisms to ensure coordination means that victims try, but fail, to find justice in country after country, court after court. The Case for an International Court of Civil Justice explains how an ICCJ would provide victims with access to justice and corporate defendants with a non-corrupt forum and an end to the cost and uncertainty of unending litigation - more efficiently resolving the most complicated types of civil litigation"--
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316678428
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Steinitz, Maya The case for an international court of civil justice Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781316678428
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Steinitz, Maya The case for an international court of civil justice Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ISBN 9781316730065
Language:
English
Keywords:
Entwicklungsländer
;
Multinationales Unternehmen
;
Unerlaubte Handlung
;
Menschenrechtsverletzung
;
Umweltschaden
;
Internationales Zivilprozessrecht
;
Multinationales Unternehmen
;
Haftung
