The International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG) brings together a panel to discuss the recent book The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity: An Introduction (Edward Elgar, 2024).
Overview of the book
In The Commercial Activity Exception to State Immunity: An Introduction, Katherine Reece Thomas explores the evolving nature of state immunity, providing an analysis of the tension between private and public law. The current rules on the commercial activity exception to state immunity are examined, in both international and domestic law settings, using recent case studies from the UK , the US and other common and civil law jurisdictions. Later chapters focus on central bank immunity in the context of sanctions and the use of the commercial activity exception in relation to claims against states for breaches of human rights.
Speakers
Professor Katherine Reece Thomas, The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Professor of Public International Law, Queen Mary, University of London
Dr Dogan Gultutan, Lecturer, The City Law School, City St George’s, University of London
Jonathan Brosseau, PhD candidate, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and McGill University
The event is kindly sponsored by GREYMORE.
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