international law american law and the idea of corporate responsibility or discuss this with me is mike sacks supreme court correspondent for the huffington post mike thanks so much for joining us tonight if you're here i mean when you say about the timing i would say that it's kind of perfect right because suddenly in the national popular discourse we hear so much about corporate personhood about corporate responsibility in this case gives the court an opportunity to show whether it has a real to the public opinion. when it's faced the question of whether corporations to be held responsible for international human rights abuses the question of corporate personhood comes in our corporations natural persons or artificial persons you know the artificial person is this by would mitt romney tells us that the rich person yes the there are rich persons but the question in this in this case is whether there's a difference between natural and legal persons when it comes to this statute you said before in whether or not corporations can be defended give us a little background i tell us more about this. alien tort s