Document Type
Article
Disciplines
International Law
Abstract
Today transnational markets and employment are reaching new heights, and international lawyers are faced with unprecedented challenges in international conflicts of laws.1 The domestic growth of foreign investment has heightened concerns about the applicability of domestic employment laws to United States employees of foreign corporations doing business in the United States, as well as for United States employees of domestic corporations operating overseas.
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) 3 enforces civil rights laws prohibiting discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and physical and mental disabilities.' The EEOC had been applying Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act5 to protect United States citizens employed abroad in domestic corporations.6 On March 26, 1991, however, in EEOC v. Arabian American Oil Co. (Aramco),7 the United States Supreme Court came to a startling decision profoundly affecting application of Title VII protection.
Recommended Citation
Maher, Linda, "Drawing Circles in the Sand: Extraterritoriality in Civil Rights Legislation After Aramco and the Civil Rights Act of 1991" (1993). Connecticut Journal of International Law. 215.
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/cjil/215
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