The state immunity controversy in international law : private suits against sovereign states in domestic courts /

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Author / Creator:Bankas, Ernest K. (Ernest Kwasi)
Imprint:Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 541 p.)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8876658
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ISBN:9783540278832
3540278834
Notes:Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Durham.
Includes text of legislation and treaties.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [517]-533) and index.
Description based on print version record.
Summary:Shows through an analysis of the law that restrictive immunity does not have vox populi in developing countries, and that it lacks uses. The author also argues that forum law, the lex fori is a creature of sovereignty and between equals before the law, only what is understood as law among states must be applied in the legal system is horizontal.
Other form:Print version: Bankas, Ernest K. (Ernest Kwasi). State immunity controversy in international law. Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2005 3540256954 9783540256953

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