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Categorizing Acts By State Officials: Attribution And Responsibility In The Law Of Foreign Official Immunity, Chimene I. Keitner
Categorizing Acts By State Officials: Attribution And Responsibility In The Law Of Foreign Official Immunity, Chimene I. Keitner
Chimene I Keitner
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The Forgotten History Of Foreign Official Immunity, Chimene I. Keitner
The Forgotten History Of Foreign Official Immunity, Chimene I. Keitner
Chimene I Keitner
The immunity of foreign officials from legal proceedings in U.S. courts has drawn significant attention from scholars, advocates, and judges in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Samantar v. Yousuf, which held that foreign official immunity is governed by the common law rather than the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA). The common law of foreign official immunity, which the Samantar Court did not define, operates at the intersection of international and domestic law, and it implicates the constitutional separation of powers between the executive and judicial branches. Conflicting visions of the substance and process of common law immunity …