Includes bibliographical references.

Preliminary Material -- 1 Immune against Constitutionalisation? / Anne Peters -- 2 L’immunité souveraine de l’État : la pratique française / Pierre Boussaroque and David Lemétayer -- 3 Sovereign Immunities of States: A German Perspective / Martin Ney -- 4 Current Polish Practice in the Domain of State Immunity / Władysław Czapliński -- 5 The Holy See, a Former Somalian Prime Minister, and a Confiscated Pissarro Painting: Recent us Case Law on Foreign Sovereign Immunity / Thomas Giegerich -- 6 La renonciation par un État à son immunité d’exécution / Mathias Audit -- 7 The Case of Germany volume Italy before the icj / Christian Tomuschat -- 8 Remedies of Victims of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanities: Some Critical Remarks on the icj’s Judgment on the Jurisdictional Immunity of States / Michael Bothe -- 9 L’affaire Allemagne contre Italie ou les dilemmes du droit et de la justice / Jerzy Kranz -- 10 Blurring Boundaries between Sovereign Acts and Commercial Activities: A Functional View on Regulatory Immunity and Immunity from Execution / Anne van Aaken -- 11 State Immunity and Sovereign Bonds / Jürgen Bröhmer -- 12 Gel des fonds des banques centrales et immunité d’exécution / Jean-Marc Thouv -- 13 Immunité et souveraineté dans l’arrêt de la Cour internationale de Justice dans l’affaire Immunités juridictionnelles de l’État / Andrea Gattini -- 14 Serious Human Rights Violations as Potential Exceptions to Immunity: Conceptual Challenges / Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack -- 15 Immunity of State Officials and the Obligation to Prosecute / Pierre d’Argente -- 16 The Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights on the Immunity of States / Theodor Schilling -- 17 Immunités, responsabilisation des organisations internationales et protection des droits individuels / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes -- 18 Les immunités de l’Union européenne / Isabelle Pingel -- 19 Immunités des organisations internationales : développements récents à la Banque des Règlements Internationaux / Pierre Panchaud and Jean Abboud -- 20 Quelques réflexions sur les immunités des organisations internationales / Rémi Cèbe -- 21 The Law of Immunities as a Focal Point of the Evolution of International Law / Stefan Oeter.

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The law of immunity of states, of international organisations, and of public officials is one of the most important and most controversial topics of international law. The book consists of five parts: ‘State Immunity – National Practice’; State Immunity before the ICJ – The case Germany v Italy; ‘Commercial Activities and State Immunity’; ‘Immunity and Impunity’; and ‘Immunities of International Organisations’. Although immunities are in principle firmly anchored in international law, their precise legal implications are often unclear. The book takes up a number of new trends and challenges in this field and assesses them within the framework of global constitutionalism and multilevel governance. Contains chapters in both English and French.

Contributions in English and French.