Enlisting the U.S. Courts in a new front: dismantling the international business holdings of terrorist groups through federal statutory and common-law suits.

From: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law | Date: May 1, 2005| Author: Strauss, Debra M. | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

The time has come to extend the national approach that has been used successfully to dismantle the infrastructure of hate groups to the international realm against terrorist groups. The foundation of this approach is a private right to a cause of action apart from any military or diplomatic efforts by the government. In this Article, Professor Strauss analyzes case precedents under several federal statutes--the Antiterrorism Act of 1991, the Antiterrorism and Ef...

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