The author argues that local officials who
failed to adequately prevent and investigate
femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, could be
held civilly liable in the U.S. under the
Alien Tort Statute (ATS). International
victims of human rights abuses have used the
ATS to bring civil suits in U.S. courts
against governmental officials and
multinational corporations for a range of
abuses. The author argues that aiding and
abetting liability should be allowed to
remain as a form of third-party liability
available under the ATS, but would not be
sufficient to hold the Mexican officials