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Man, if you were mad about Jones Day, wait until you hear about what Neal Katyal argued today! https://twitter.com/jake_romm/status/1326288007591292929
The lawyers who represented Trump in one of his frivolous election lawsuits will likely face greater social repercussions (if any) than the lawyers currently arguing that corporations should be immune from consequences just b/c they did child slavery abroad instead of in the US
That law is an instrument of power, and the lawyers who argue that child slavery abroad is fine when done by a corporation (but not by an individual!) are happily taking a paycheck to grease the wheels of capital and immiserate the majority of the world's population.
Increasingly, corporations do not just operate across national or state borders, but over those borders—they're unconstrained by territoriality on both an international & national scale. That is, they exist above the national system, as quasi-sovereign entities in their own right
Thus it makes sense to talk about corps. as "Supranationals" instead of "multinational."
W/ this quasi-sovereignty in mind, it's time the law—int'l or otherwise—treat corps. the way it would a city/state/country that engaged in the same systemic/flagrant human rights violations
W/ this quasi-sovereignty in mind, it's time the law—int'l or otherwise—treat corps. the way it would a city/state/country that engaged in the same systemic/flagrant human rights violations
(of course, traditional sovereign entities are also rarely held accountable for their actions, but the judiciary seems significantly less confused and maybe less reticent when it's a state or an individual engaging in this behavior)
In any event this is all to say--Nestle to the Hague!
I should also say as a last note that fewer legal developments demonstrate US law’s fundamental role as a servant and guardian of capital better than the whittling down of the Alien Tort Statute into something that lawyers can plausibly say doesn’t apply to child slavery abroad
For those who want more detail, great thread below by @NatashaArnpr 
https://twitter.com/natashaarnpr/status/1333793625143013378
https://twitter.com/natashaarnpr/status/1333793625143013378
