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Sovereign Immunity: The Exception For Intellectual Or Industrial Property, Virginia Morris
Sovereign Immunity: The Exception For Intellectual Or Industrial Property, Virginia Morris
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The doctrine of sovereign or state immunity exempts a state and its property from the judicial jurisdiction of any other state. The domestic courts of various nations have developed this doctrine over the years through cases in which private citizens have attempted to sue foreign states. Courts' enunciations of the principle of state immunity and their reasons for granting or denying the immunity are almost as numerous as the countries whose courts have faced this issue. The current work of the International Law Commission (the Commission) on the codification and the progressive development of the jurisdictional immunities of states and …