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Epilog: Foreign Sovereign Immunity At Home And Abroad, Ingrid Wuerth
Epilog: Foreign Sovereign Immunity At Home And Abroad, Ingrid Wuerth
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Every author writing on U.S. law for this symposium notes that the extent to which the Executive Branch can make binding immunity determinations is an important issue going forward. In addition to Legal Adviser Koh, two other authors address this issue directly. Professor Peter Rutledge provides a typology of the various roles that the Executive Branch might play in immunity (and other) cases, distinguishing in particular between views articulated by the Executive Branch independently of ongoing litigation, and those expressed with respect to particular pending cases. And Lewis Yelin of the Department of Justice has contributed a major, comprehensive article …