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Foreign Sovereign Immunity--The Status Of Legal Entities In Socialist Countries As Defendants Under The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Of 1976, Jere G. Thompson
Foreign Sovereign Immunity--The Status Of Legal Entities In Socialist Countries As Defendants Under The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act Of 1976, Jere G. Thompson
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) grants an "agency or instrumentality" of a foreign state substantially the same immunities that are provided to the state itself under the Act. An agency or instrumentality of a foreign state is defined in section 1603(b) of the FSIA. Section 1603(b) lists the following three criteria that must be met by an entity in order to qualify as an agency or instrumentality for sovereign immunity purposes: (1) the entity must be a legally independent person under the laws of the foreign state in which it was created; (2) the entity must be …