¹ Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S.Ct. 1659 (2013) (reported by Ingrid Wuerth in this issue of the Journal).

² 28 U.S.C. §1350. The ATS provides that “[t]he district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States.”

³ Kiobel, 133 S.Ct. at 1669 (emphasis added) (citation omitted).

⁴ Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 456 F.Supp.2d 457 (S.D.N.Y. 2006).

⁵ Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 621 F.3d 111 (2d Cir. 2010); see John R. Crook, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 105 AJIL 122,142 (2011).

⁶ Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 132 S.Ct. 472 (2011); see John R. Crook, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 106 AJIL 360, 382 (2012).

⁷ See John R. Crook, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 106 AJIL 843, 862 (2012).

⁸ See Robert Barnes, Should U.S. Courts Hear Lawsuits over Corporate Abuses Abroad?, Wash. Post, Oct. 2, 2012, at A5.

⁹ 130 S.Ct. 2869 (2010); see John R. Crook, Contemporary Practice of the United States, 104 AJIL 654, 654 (2010).

¹⁰ Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 133 S.Ct. 1659, 1665 (2013).

¹¹ Id. at 1664.

¹² [Editor’s note: Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004).]

¹³ Kiobel, 133 S.Ct. at 1664–65.

¹⁴ Id. at 1665–68 (citations omitted).

¹⁵ Id. at 1669.

¹⁶ Id.

¹⁷ [Editor’s note: 28 U.S.C. §1350 note (2012).]

¹⁸ Kiobel, 133 S.Ct. at 1669 (Kennedy, J., concurring).

¹⁹ Id. at 1671 (Breyer, J., concurring).

²⁰ Id. at 1669–70 (Alito, J., concurring).

²¹ [Editor’s note: 542 U.S. 692 (2004).]

²² Kiobel, 133 S.Ct. at 1670 (Alito, J., concurring).