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The Law of State Immunity 3rd ed


ISBN13: 9780198744412
Published: August 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2013)
Price: £80.00
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Revised and updated to include recent developments since 2013, the third edition of The Law of State Immunity provides a detailed guide to the operation of the international rule of State immunity which bars one State's national courts from exercising criminal or civil jurisdiction over claims made against another State. Building on the analysis of its two previous editions, it reviews relevant material at both international and national levels with particular attention to US and UK law; the 2004 UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of the State and its Property (not yet in force), and also seeks to assess the significance of recent changes in the evolution of the law.

Although the restrictive doctrine of immunity is now widely observed by which foreign States may be sued in national courts for their commercial transactions, the immunity rule remains controversial, not only by reason of the recognition of a single State's right to deny a remedy for a wrong - China, a major trading State, continues to adhere to the absolute bar - but also by the exclusion of any reparation or relief for the commission on the orders of a State of grave human rights violations. The complexity and moral challenge of the issues is illustrated by high profile cases such as Pinochet, Amerada Hess, Saudi Arabia v Nelson and more recently NML v Argentina in national courts; Al-Adsani v UK and Jones v UK in the European Court of Human Rights; and Judgments of the International Court of Justice in Arrest Warrant, Djibouti v France and most recently in the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State, which, particularly since the 2014 contrary ruling of the Italian Constitutional Court, has attracted strong juristic criticism. The expanding extraterritorial jurisdiction of national courts with regard to torture in disregard of pleas of act of State and nonjusticiability as in Belhaj and Rahmatullah offers a further challenge to the exclusionary nature and continued observance of State immunity

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Recent developments in key areas are examined, including: impleading; public policy and non-justiciability; universal civil jurisdiction for reparation for international crimes; the application of the employment exception to embassies and diplomats; immunity from enforcement and procedural measures; immunity of State officials, and tensions between national constitutional requirements and superior international norms.

Subjects:
Public International Law
Contents:
Introduction

Part I: General Concepts
1: The Institution of Proceedings and the Nature of the Plea of State Immunity
2: The Three Models of the Concept of State Immunity
3: The Plea of State Immunity Distinguished from Act of State and Non-justiciability
4: State Immunity and Jurisdiction: Immunity from the Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of National Courts

Part II: The Sources of the Law of State Immunity
5: A Review of the Sources: Treaties and Projects for Codification
6: The Restrictive Doctrine of State Immunity: Its Recognition in State Practice
7: English Law: The UK State Immunity Act 1978
8: US Law: The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act 1976
9: The 2004 UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property: General Aspects

Part III: The Current International Law of State Immunity
10: The Definition of the Foreign State
11: The Consent of the Foreign State: Waiver and the Arbitration Exception
12: The Concept of Commerciality
13: Immunity from Adjudication: The Proceedings in which Immunity Cannot be Invoked, the Commerical and Other Exceptions
14: Immunity from Adjudication: The Employment Exception in Respect of (1) A Foreign State and (2) An International Organization
15: Immunity from Adjudication: The Territorial Tort Exception
16: State Immunity from Enforcement: General Aspects
17: The Three Exceptions to Immunity from Enforcement and the Five Categories of State Property Listed as Immune

Part IV: Other Immunities
18: Immunity of Individuals Acting on Behalf of the States
19: International Organizations and Special Regimes

Part V: Conclusions
20: Taking Stock

Appendix: The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property

Series: Oxford International Law Library

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