Cover; State Immunity in International Law; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Table of cases; Decisions of International Courts and Tribunals; International Court of Justice; European Court of Justice; European Court of Human Rights; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; Special Court for Sierra Leone; Arbitral Tribunals; Decisions of National Courts; Argentina; Australia; Austria; Belgium; Brazil; Canada; Chile; China; Czechoslovakia; Denmark; Egypt; Estonia; Finland; France; Gabon; Germany; Greece; India
IrelandIsrael; Italy; Japan; Jordan; Kenya; Lebanon; Lithuania; Malaysia; The Netherlands; New Zealand; Nigeria; Norway; Pakistan; The Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Singapore; South Africa; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; United Kingdom; United States; Zimbabwe; Legal instruments and codification documents; Treaties; Other International Documents; National Legislation; United Nations Documents; UN General Assembly Resolutions; UN General Assembly decisions; Reports of the Secretary-General; Reports of the International Law Commission
Reports of the ILC Special Rapporteurs on Jurisdictional ImmunitiesReports of the ILC Working Group; Other ILC Documents; Documents of the UN General Assembly Sixth Committee; Reports of the UN Sixth Committee Working Group; Reports of the General Assembly Ad Hoc Committee; Documents of Other International Organizations; Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO); Council of Europe; Organization of American States (OAS); National Documents; Documents of International Learned Bodies; Harvard Research; Institut de Droit International (IDI); International Law Association (ILA)
Introduction1 The history of State immunity; 1. The age of absolute immunity; 2. Exceptions to absolute immunity; 3. The emergence of the doctrine of restrictive immunity; 4. The descent of the State; 5. The irrelevance of ideologies; 6. The defendant States; 7. The sources of the law of State immunity; 8. Cross-fertilization; 9. Terminology; Conclusion; 2 General principles; 1. A general statement of principles; 2. State immunity as a principle of customary international law; 3. The presumption of immunity; 4. Immunity and municipal law; 5. The legal basis for immunity
5.1. 'Sovereignty' and the affiliated concepts5.2. Par in parem non habet imperium?; 5.3. What is the basis of immunity?; 6. The legal basis for denying immunity; 6.1. The 'private person' test; 6.2. The principle of territorial jurisdiction; 6.3. Private act plus territoriality -- Binnenbeziehung; Conclusion; 3 Commercial activity; 1. What is a commercial activity?; 2. What is a non-commercial activity?; 3. Nature or purpose?; 3.1. The 'nature' approach; 3.2. The difficulties with the 'nature' approach; 3.3. The 'purpose' approach; 3.4. The 'context' approach; 3.5. A summary
Summary
Xiaodong Yang examines the issue of jurisdictional immunities of States and their property in foreign domestic courts
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4. The jurisdictional nexus requirement under the US FSIA
