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20 Penn St. Int'l L. Rev. 253 (2001-2002)
Justice for Comfort Women: Will the Alien Tort Claims Act Bring Them the Remedies They Seek

handle is hein.journals/psilr20 and id is 261 raw text is: Comments Justice for Comfort Women: Will the Alien Tort Claims Act Bring Them the Remedies They Seek? I. Introduction The International Law Commission recognizes five crimes under international law: aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, crimes against United Nation personnel, and war crimes.I Although these crimes are internationally recognized, it is often difficult for individual victims to get any redress.2 One option that the United States offers for victims of international law violations is the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA).3 It grants foreigners the opportunity to sue in a United States District Court for tortious conduct that violates international law or a treaty with the United States.4 In recent years, the two-hundred-year-old statute has been 1. Beth Stephans, Conceptualizing Violence: Present and Future Developments in International Law. Panel I: Human Rights and Civil Wrongs at Home and Abroad: Old Problems and New Paradigms: Conceptualizing Violence Under International Law: Do Tort Remedies Fit the Crime? 60 ALB. L. REV. 579, 581 (1997). 2. Id. 3. 28 U.S.C. § 1350 which provides: original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. 4. Id.

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