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The Sources Of Immunity Law – Between International And Domestic Law, Lori Fisler Damrosch
The Sources Of Immunity Law – Between International And Domestic Law, Lori Fisler Damrosch
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The immunities regimes covered by this volume presuppose the existence of juridically equal States whose interactions are governed by international law. States engage in international relations with each other through a variety of agents, who could be individuals or legal persons; and States likewise establish international organizations for carrying out shared purposes. Each State has a domestic legal system through which State actors generate various sorts of executive, judicial and legislative practice, all of which can in principle be evidence of the international law of immunities.
The several regimes relevant to the immunities of the State itself, and of international …