Harvard’s Environmental Law Society, among other human rights and environmental groups, is hosting a talk Friday by Steven Donziger on the future of transnational corporate liability. The event bills Donziger, Chevron Corporation’s longtime foe in Ecuador and New York, as the victim of a retaliation campaign by the oil giant.
I invite the organizers to read the amicus brief filed by Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Jurists in partial support of Chevron’s upcoming argument Monday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The most notable signer is Thomas Buergenthal, a former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, who survived a childhood in Auschwitz to pioneer international jurisprudence on state accountability for gross human rights abuses in Honduras. Buergenthal also served on the El Salvador Truth Commission and the U.N. Human Rights Committee, and for a decade on the International Court of Justice. Perhaps most to the point, Buergenthal is the author of “International Human Rights in a Nutshell.”
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