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27 Yale J. Int'l L. 395 (2002)
The Fallacy of the Sovereign Prerogative to Set Minimis Liability Rules for Sexual Slavery

handle is hein.journals/yjil27 and id is 405 raw text is: Comment The Fallacy of the Sovereign Prerogative to Set De Minimis Liability Rules for Sexual Slavery Mary De Ming Fan* 1. INT ODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 395 11. STATE-SPONSORED COMMODIFIED SEXUAL SLAVERY AND ITS AFTERMATH: DOCTRINAL R zSION .............................................................................................................................. 399 A. Commockfied Sexual Slavery at the Point of a Sword ................................................... 399 B. Struggle for Justice Against a Political Tide ................................................................ 402 C. Turn to U.S. Court: Hwang Geum Joo and its Holding on the CommercialActivity Waiver of Foreign Sovereign Immunity ........................................................................ 404 1. The Clear Case for a Waiver of Sovereign Immunil for Commodified Sexual Slavery ............................................................................................................ 405 2. The Hwang Geum Joo Court's Converse Commercial Activity Holding ........... 408 D. Hwang Geum Joo Rephrased- Reversion to the Purported Sovereign Prerogative to Set -Liability Rulesfor Women's Bodies ............................................................................. 410 IT1 THE ERA OF THE STATE P EROGATIVE TO SET INITIAL PROPERTY AD LIABILITY RULES FOR VICTIMS OF COMMODIFIED SEXUAL SLAVERY .......................................................................... 412 IV. CONVERGENCE: THE DELETION OF THE LIABILITY RULE EXCEPTION ........................................ 417 V . CONCLUSION ........................................................................................................................... 420 I. INTRODUCTION Tomasa Salinog remembers her rape at thirteen and her initiation into Imperial Japan's system of comfort stations.1 Japanese soldiers burst into The author dedicates this Comment to her grandmothers Li Ru Jen and Tsaur Ruey Lin, who taught her wisdom, strength and justice. 1. Her description of the events is set forth in the Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Declaratory Judgment that Japan Cannot Claim Sovereign Immunity in Defense of Claims of Systematic Sexual Slavery During World War II at 9, Hwang Geum Joo v. Japan, 172 F. Supp. 2d 52 (D.D.C. 2001) (No. 00-CV-2288) [hereinafter Pl.'s Mot for Declaratory J.] (citing Plaintiff's Complaint 9, Hwang Geum Joo v. Japan, 172 F. Supp. 2d 52 (D.D.C. 2001) (No. 00-CV- 2288) [hereinafter Pl.'s Compl.]).

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