What does a plaintiff do when the United States Government originally supports your case and then, after the Supreme Court requests further briefing, comes out against you?  That is the question that the plaintiffs in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum are facing today.  As previously reported

Conference on Collective Redress in the Cross-Border Context In the framework of the Henry G. Schermers Fellowship Programme<http://www.hiil.org/henry-g-schermers-fellowship>, held this year by Professor S.I. Strong, the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HiiL) and the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)<http://www.nias.nl/Pages/NIA/2/764.bGFuZz1FTkc.html> announce a workshop on the theme ‘Collective Redress in the Cross-Border Context: Arbitration, […]

ASIL-ESIL International Legal Theory Workshop Call for Papers ASIL’s International Legal Theory Interest Group, in partnership with the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on International Legal Theory, will hold a joint works-in-progress workshop at the University of Cambridge’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law September 27–28, 2012. The workshop’s theme is “Transatlantic Debates […]

The blogs were abuzz last week about the Kiobel case (argued on February 28), which asks whether corporations may be sued for violations of the law of nations under the Alien Tort Statute.  Full information is available