Research handbook on jurisdiction and immunities in international law /

Research handbook on jurisdiction and immunities in international law /

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Imprint:Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Pub. Ltd., 2015.
Description:1 online resource (560 p.)
Language:English
Series:Research handbooks in international law
Research handbooks in international law.
Subject:
Jurisdiction (International law)
Privileges and immunities.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12242288
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Other authors / contributors:Orakhelashvili, Alexander.
Edward Elgar Publishing.
ISBN:9781783472185 (e-book)
Notes:Includes index.
Summary:This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the international law of jurisdiction and immunities, illustrating those aspects in which the law of jurisdiction and law of immunities are mutually interdependent, as well as shedding light on the implications of that interdependence. With authoritative contributions from recognized experts, it offers an impartial perspective on the applicable international law, independent from any positions held in governmental or other institutional circles. Authoritative and well-structured, the book covers all major topics in relation to jurisdiction and immunities, such as conceptual justifications for jurisdiction and immunities, extra-territorial jurisdiction, types of available immunities, normative basis for jurisdiction and immunity claims in various types of judicial proceedings. It explores the complex questions arising when a state asserts its jurisdiction over persons that are based abroad, or are not that state's citizens, or otherwise have no connection with that state, as well as how tensions are further heightened when one state tries to assert jurisdiction, in its own courts, over another state or an international organization such as the UN. This much-needed Handbook will appeal strongly to academic researchers and postgraduate students. Civil servants and employees of international organizations and NGOs will also find it an invaluable resource.
Other form:9781783472178 (hardback)
Table of Contents:
  • 1. State jurisdiction in international law : complexities of a basic concept / Alexander Orakhelashvili
  • 2. The concept of jurisdiction in international law / Cedric Ryngaert
  • 3. Universal jurisdiction : concept, logic and reality / Sienho Yee
  • 4. Jurisdiction of states and the law of the sea / Yoshifumi Tanaka
  • 5. State immunity from jurisdiction between law, comity, and ideology / Alexander Orakhelashvili
  • 6. Shared foundations and conceptual differentiation in immunities from jurisdiction / J. Craig Barker
  • 7. Immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of national courts / Elizabeth Franey
  • 8. The UK State Immunity Act 1978 : history, scope and relation to international law / Alexander Orakhelashvili
  • 9. Treaties on state immunity : the 1972 and 2004 conventions / Alexander Orakhelashvili
  • 10. Foreign state immunity : a private international law analysis / Richard Garnett
  • 11. The status of armed forces in public international law : jurisdiction and immunity / Aurel Sari
  • 12. Immunity from execution / Xiaodong Yang
  • 13. Torture, jurisdiction and immunity : theories and practices in search of one another / Francois Larocque
  • 14. Immunities and international criminal tribunals / Robert Cryer
  • 15. Jurisdictional immunity of international organisations : from abstract functionality to absolute immunity / Alexander Orakhelashvili.

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