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Chevron's Sour Lake: How a Decades-Long Legal Battle Exemplifies the Need for Changes in U.S. Law.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Chevron's Sour Lake: How a Decades-Long Legal Battle Exemplifies the Need for Changes in U.S. Law./
Author:	Sligh, Madeleine.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2019,
Description:	90 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International80-12.
Subject:	Latin American history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=13882824
ISBN:	9781392181904

Chevron's Sour Lake: How a Decades-Long Legal Battle Exemplifies the Need for Changes in U.S. Law.
Sligh, Madeleine.

Chevron's Sour Lake: How a Decades-Long Legal Battle Exemplifies the Need for Changes in U.S. Law. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 90 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 80-12.

Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Arizona, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In 1993, a group of Ecuadorian plaintiffs filed a complaint against oil giant Texaco in the U.S. Their cause of action? An oil spill the size of Manhattan, an environmental crisis referred to by numerous environmentalists, ecologists, and investigative journalists as the "Rain Forest Chernobyl." This thesis examines the ongoing litigation, a "legal suicide mission," undertaken by animated American lawyer Steven Donziger on behalf of the indigenous people of the Oriente region. Their opponent, Chevron, acquired Texaco in 2001, and went on to become the second highest producer of oil worldwide.This thesis aims to explain the tangled and extensive history of this case. It describes the legal mechanisms at work and how they affect the litigation for a non-legal audience, and, unlike most legal literature, it explores the history and the people of the Oriente region, in addition to profiling Steven Donziger, the plaintiffs' attorney. It also analyzes how both parties have used the media as weapons against the opposing party. The final objective of this thesis is to use this case as a lesson for how U.S. law must change in order to best protect not only human rights victims, but also U.S. corporations.

ISBN: 9781392181904Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Latin American history.

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