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Visibility Rankings  | | #1,620 out of 53,921 lawyers in New York, New York | | #21,466 out of 890,538 total lawyers Overall |
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| Practice Areas | Insurance and Reinsurance; International Commercial Arbitration; Litigation | | | Peer Review Rating | AV
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What's this? | | | Education | Cornell University, J.D., 1980, Northwestern University, B.A., 1977 | | | Admitted | 1981, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1983, U.S. Claims Court; 1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1990, U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; 1993, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third and Seventh Circuits. | |
| Memberships | The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Military Affairs and Justice, 1992-1994; Committee on International Security Affairs, 1996-1998; Committee on Arbitration, 2000-2003; Committee on International Law, 2003-2006; Special Committee on International Commercial Disputes; Refugee Assistance Program); American Bar Association (Tort and Insurance Practice Section; Chair, Public Regulation of Insurance Law Committee, 1992-1993; Chair, International Committee, 1999-2000; Section of International Law and Practice; Co-Chair, Committee on International Financial Services, 2001-2002); International Bar Association (Officer, Section on Business Law Committee on Insurance, 1992-1996; Committee on Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution; Officer, Committee on Interventions and Trial Observations, Human Rights Institute, 2000-2004); Association Internationale de Droit des Assurance (President, U.S. Chapter); International Law Association (Member, Committee on the Formation of Customary International Law); British Commercial Bar Association (Honorary Overseas Member); Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies (Member: National Practitioners Advisory Council; Executive Committee, International and National Security Law Practice Group); American Arbitration Association (Member, International Panel of Arbitrators); London Court of International Arbitration. | | | Born | New Jersey, 1955 | | | ISLN | 901801881 | |
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Corporate Exposure for Human Rights Violations under the Alien Tort StatuteVincent J. Vitkowsky, July 18, 2008 Corporations can be sued by U.S. courts for damages in tort based on alleged violations of international law occurring in foreign countries. The complaints sometimes include provocative claims of human rights violations, such as the disappearance, torture or death of local citizens and trade union... |
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