Sunday, January 30, 2011

In a scathing and shoot-from-the-hip article entitled, "An Alien by Any Other Name: Debunking a New Attempt to Re-Write the Original Language of the Alien Tort Statute," Rick Herz and Lorraine Leete attack  M. Anderson Berry's "Whether Foreigner or Alien: A New Look at the Original Language of the Alien Tort Statute," 27 Berkeley J. of Int’l. L. 316 (2009). See BJIL's online publication, Publicist, Vol. 7, Winter 2011.

Tuesday, January 04, 2011

M. Anderson Berry, Whether Foreigner or Alien: A New Look at the Original Language of the Alien Tort Statute, was republsihed in late 2010 in the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, Vol. 30, Issue 1 (2009), pp. 111-176 (30 Immigr. & Nat'lity L. Rev. 111 (2009)).  "Berry discusses the seemingly minor linguistic change by Congress that substantially altered the class of individuals to whom the Alien Tort Statute is available."